Quotes About Themistocles

#1. Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.

Epictetus

#2. Strike, if you will, but listen.

Themistocles

#3. May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

Themistocles

#4. The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

#5. I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

Themistocles

#6. I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

#7. Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

Plutarch

#8. Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

Thomas E. Mann

#9. I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Themistocles

#10. All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn't read to escape it, you read to discover it.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#11. He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

Dean Koontz

#12. One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#13. I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon,

Heinrich Schliemann

#14. I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness ... whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.

Themistocles

#15. He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Themistocles

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

Plutarch