For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.


Statement to his son, as quoted in Familiar Quotations 9th Edition (1894) edited by J. Bartlett, p. 723

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Themistocles Quotes

For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.

For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.

For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.

For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.