Plutarch

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

[about Theseus, began the saying:] He is a second Hercules.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time it was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.