Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with p… - Plutarch

no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

Lycurgus did not regard sons as the peculiar property of their fathers, but rather as the common property of the state,

In fact Cleopatra was indebted to Fulvia for teaching Antony to obey a wife's authority, for by the time he met her he had already been quite broken in and schooled to accept the way of women.