Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
PlutarchThe process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
PlutarchWhen Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.
Plutarch