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• I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
  -- Marcus Procius Cato...
• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch
  han that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow....
• Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees?
  ... Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us....
• Alexander said, "I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...
• After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
  -- Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.)...
• For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• You speak truth," said Themistocles; "I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphu
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise me
  for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men....
• He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man.
  I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man....