Romulus

Afterwards he, as most, nay all men, very few excepted, do, who are raised by great and miraculous good-haps of fortune to power and greatness, so, I say, did he; relying upon his own great actions, and growing of a haughtier mind, he forsook his popular behavior for kingly arrogance, odious to the people; to whom in the particular the state which he assumed was hateful.

• Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
  • p. 70 ("Plutarch's Lives and Writings", Easton Press, 2021, vol. 1)

Romulus would have but openly betrayed how much he had encroached on his neighbors' lands, had he ever set limits to his own; for boundaries are, indeed, a defence to those who choose to observe them, but are only a testimony against the dishonesty of those who break through them.

• Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
  • p. 150 ("Plutarch's Lives and Writings", Easton Press, 2021, vol. 1)