Themistocles Quotes
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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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From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."
Plutarch— Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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?"
Plutarch— 48 Themistocles.
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."
Plutarch— 49 Themistocles.
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.
From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."
— Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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.
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)
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.
