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• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much.
  True," said he, "but every goose can." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Remarkable Speeche...
• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,.
  .. he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?...
• Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Pyrrhu...
• I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• Zeno first started that doctrine that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• Melchett, I prostrate myself before the feet of the world's _greatest living comedian_!
  !!.... -- Edmund : Money...