Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1224 |
| AUTHOR: | Author unknown |
| QUOTATION: | Philip, remember that thou art mortal. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Author unknown. Supposedly, words Philip of Macedon had a servant repeat in the audience-room.—Samuel A. Bent, Short Sayings of Great Men, p. 437 (1882). Similarly, “Remember thou, too, art a man.”—Words a slave would be bidden to whisper now and again to the triumphal conqueror returning in state to Rome.—John L. Stoddard, Lectures, vol. 8, pp. 263–64 (1911). |
| SUBJECTS: | Mortality |