"One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pr…"

"Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him …"

"Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!""

"Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this …"

"He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature."

"The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds."

"I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch…"

"Remember what Simonides said,—that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."

"Custom is almost a second nature."

"Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.""