Themistocles Quotes
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May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.
Themistocles— As quoted by Plutarch, in Lives as translated by J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne (1850), p.225
For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.
Themistocles— Statement to his son, as quoted in Familiar Quotations 9th Edition (1894) edited by J. Bartlett, p. 723
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Themistocles— As quoted in The Columbia Book of Quotations (1993) edited by R. Andrews, p. 894.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Themistocles— As quoted in The Quotable Intellectual (2010) edited by P. Archer, p. 152
