01c. 83 ADSpintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.Plutarch / quote ↗
02c. 83 ADIt is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,—nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.Plutarch / quote ↗
03c. 83 ADAntiphanes said merrily, that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.Plutarch / quote ↗
04c. 83 ADAs those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.Plutarch / quote ↗
05c. 83 ADWhat is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.Plutarch / quote ↗
06c. 83 ADNo man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.Plutarch / quote ↗
10c. 83 ADSocrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.Plutarch / quote ↗
11c. 83 ADAnaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.Plutarch / quote ↗
12c. 83 ADAthenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.Plutarch / quote ↗
13c. 83 ADLet us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.Plutarch / quote ↗
14c. 83 ADWhy does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?Plutarch / quote ↗
16c. 83 ADI am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.Plutarch / quote ↗
17c. 83 ADWhen Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this."Plutarch / quote ↗
19c. 83 ADIt is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.Plutarch / quote ↗
22c. 83 ADWhen Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Action;" and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action."Plutarch / quote ↗
23c. 83 ADXenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.Plutarch / quote ↗
24c. 83 ADLampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour."Plutarch / quote ↗
