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• And this," said Caesar, "you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage.
  And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses....
• Man's life is like unto a winter's day,-- Some break their fast and so depart away
  Others stay dinner, then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed....
• As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Lysande...
• Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle
• Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will
  but hear." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortunes in your boat.
  -- 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...
• About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day
  for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die....