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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 8831 |
| AUTHOR: | Plutarch (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120) |
| QUOTATION: | He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On the Tranquillity of the Mind. |
| Note 1. Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.—Montaigne: Works, book i. chap. i. That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End. [back] |
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