Plutarch - Themistocles Quotes

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Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

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From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."

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He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man. "I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man."

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"You speak truth," said Themistocles; "I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; nor you, had you been of Athens".

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Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be,—a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"

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Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will; but hear".

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Themistocles said to Antiphales, "Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson".

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Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrument; could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious.

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