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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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They [Xanthippus, Aristides the Just, and Themistocles] all won lasting renown by constantly accusing one another of peculation and fraud and calling names at election time.
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
Pierre Trudeau
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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Themistocles
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Born:
524 BC
Died:
459 BC
(aged 65)
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