John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Plutarch. (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120) (continued) |
| shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.” |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Agesilaus the Great. |
| 8885 |
| “I will show,” said Agesilaus, “that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.” |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Agesilaus the Great. |
| 8886 |
| When one asked him what boys should learn, “That,” said he, “which they shall use when men.” |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Agesilaus the Great. |
| 8887 |
| Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own. |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Agesilaus the Great. |
| 8888 |
| When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, “A fool cannot hold his tongue.” |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Demaratus. |
| 8889 |
| Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, “She can choose best,” and so took both away with him. |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Lysander. |
| 8890 |
| A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, “He ails nothing,” “It is because, sir,” he replied, “I use none of your physic.” |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax. |
| 8891 |
| And when the physician said, “Sir, you are an old man,” “That happens,” replied Pausanias, “because you never were my doctor.” |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax. |
| 8892 |
| When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, “I ’ll lay my life,” said he, “somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.” |
| Laconic Apophthegms. Of Plistarchus. |
| 8893 |
| Anacharsis said a man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. |
| The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. 11. |