Themistocles Quotes

• He who commands the sea has command of everything.

  Themistocles

  Military, Sea, Command

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

  Themistocles

  Cities, Arabia, Littles

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  Themistocles

  Son, Wife, Greek

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• Strike, if you will, but listen.

  Themistocles

  Strikes, Ifs

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• 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.

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