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• Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle
• So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...
• 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...
• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matte
  but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome....
• As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Lysande...
• It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
  -- Goethe...