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• Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Cicero...
• After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do.
  Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws....
• Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• 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...
• Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Pyrrhu...
• While the sick man has life there is hope.
  -- Cicero (106-43 BC) -- Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix, 10, 4...
• There is not opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Ad familiare...
• An unjust peace is better than a just war.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "Epistola ad Atticum" (106-43 BCE)...
• Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...