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

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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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— 49 Themistocles.

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Themistocles told the Adrians that he brought two gods with him, Persuasion and Force. They replied: "We also, have two gods on our side, Poverty and Despair."


— Plutarch, Herodotus.

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


— Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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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.


— Timoleon.

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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?"


— 48 Themistocles.

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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."


— 49 Themistocles.

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He who controls the sea controls everything. Quotes about Themistocles


— Thucydides, in History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 400 BC) as translated by Richard Crawley (1910)

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The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.


— Linschoten, London. Preface to English Trans.

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