Maxioms by Plutarch
The wildest colts only make the best horses.
The wildest colts only make the best horses.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against
another man's oration,--nay, it is a very read more
It 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.