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• Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• 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...
• To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Fabiu...
• 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
• To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive
  but men are generally pleased with variety....
• Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrume
  could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious....
• Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Grea...
• 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...