“When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men."”
Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms
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Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms
Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals?, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Pelopidas
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.”
Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms
On the Tranquillity of the Mind
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.”
Life of Caius Marius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."”
Platonic Questions, i
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49 Themistocles
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
“I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.”
Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms
“A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."”
33 Archelaus
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
On the Tranquillity of the Mind
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“When the candles are out all women are fair.”
Plutarch
libro
Moralia
Conjugal Precepts
Moralia, Others
Of Fortune
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Demosthenes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Marcellus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Man's Progress in Virtue
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Agesilaus II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)