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From this course of life, we reap liberty.

— Agesilaus II Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887)

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When asked what boys should learn, he replied, “That which they will use when men.”

Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887)

When he was invited to hear the man who imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying: "I have heard the bird herself."

Accepting an inferior seat at a public dancing, Agesilaus said, “It is not the places which grace men, but men the places.”

Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887)

He was always declaring that justice was the first of the virtues; for valour was of no use unless justice attended it, and if all men should be just, there would be no need of valour.

When asked why they wore their hair long, he replied, “Because of all personal ornaments it costs the least.”

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