A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."

Laconic Apophthegms. Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax.

And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor."

Laconic Apophthegms. Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax.

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living."

Laconic Apophthegms. Of Plistarchus.

Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. 11.

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Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."[738:1]