Quotes About Agesilaus

#1. Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

Plutarch

#2. Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

Plutarch

#3. If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

Agesilaus II

#4. That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

Plutarch

#5. Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

Walter Savage Landor

#6. Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

Agesilaus II

#7. When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

Edie Falco

#8. Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

Agesilaus II

#9. Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.

Jane Krakowski

#10. If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

Agesilaus II

#11. Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

John Ortberg

#12. Everyone just needs to stop fighting and have a cookie.

Keegan Allen

#13. I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

Agesilaus II

#14. So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

Kim Dae-jung

#15. If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

Agesilaus II

#16. By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Agesilaus II

#17. Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

Gabriel Ba

#18. Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Meg Cabot

#19. But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Plutarch