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Themistocles Quotes

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Themistocles
Military, Sea, Command

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

Themistocles
Cities, Arabia, Littles

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

Themistocles
Men, Want, Rich

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Themistocles
Hypnosis, Two, Persuasion
"The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 894, 1993.

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

Themistocles
Son, Wife, Greek

Strike, if you will, but listen.

Themistocles
Strikes, Ifs

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
Greatness, Play, Cities

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

Themistocles
Friends, Favors, May
"Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek: with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, rtansl. by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, p. 225, 1850.