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“When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: "Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Themistocles.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1b7d52899c303a6ca3f675cd3a902d450a381dd89f613e48854d769c0fe3aebb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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