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• It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7...
• The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Romulu...
• Remember what Simonides said,--that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7...
• Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Coriolanu...
• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...
• He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• He said that in his whole life he most repented of three thing
  one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land...
• Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• Themistocles said to Antiphales, "Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...