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Themistocles
7 quotes
“I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.”
Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Plutarch, in Lives as translated by J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne (1836), p. 84
“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”
Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Plutarch, in Lives as translated by J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne (1850), p. 225
“Strike, if you will, but hear.”
Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Familiar Quotations, 9th Edition (1894) edited by J. Bartlett, p. 723
“For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.”
Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Quotable Intellectual (2010) edited by P. Archer, p. 152
“He who controls the sea controls everything.”
Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source