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• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...
• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them.
  When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,--thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong...
• Before he went off to the wars, King Arthur locked his lovely wife, Guinevere, into her chastity belt.
  Then he summoned his loyal friend and subject Sir Lancelot....
• When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
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  He took a seat next to a hulking bruiser of a man who happened to be the heavyweight champion of the world....
• One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad
  for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger....
• When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...