من الناس نتعلم الكلام ومن الآلهة الصمت - Plutarch

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."

When someone asked Demaratus why the Spartans disgrace those who throw away their shields but not those who abandon their breastplates or helmets, he said that they put the latter on for their own sakes but the shield for the sake of the whole line.