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When someone was asking him why Spartiates do not dedicate the spoils from their enemies to the gods, he said: ‘Because they come from cowards.’
If I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial. But if I have not, not even all the statues in the world – the products of vulgar, worthless men – would make any difference.
When somebody was praising an orator for his ability to magnify small points, Agesilaus said: ‘In my opinion it's not a good cobbler who fits large shoes on small feet.’
If we do not think it right to be ruled by those who have beaten us in battle, why do we accept as our master a man who has not conquered us, so that we may appear inferior not to one, but to two kings, because of our flight from Antigonus and our flattery of Ptolemy?
There is no difference between a friend and a mercenary except that the former is kept by the way he is treated and addressed, and the latter by money.