Quote by Plutarch

"There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the wise man does not deny, but readily admits, the necessity of acquiescing in the ingrained demand."

Plutarch Inspiration
Historian Biographer Greece (Chaeronea) 46–120

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