Agesilaus II famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues
-- Agesilaus II

#Royalty #Virtue #Vain
Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.
-- Agesilaus II

#Injustice #Virtue #Valor
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
-- Agesilaus II

#Simplicity #Liberty #Golden
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
-- Agesilaus II

#Memories #Remembrance #Legacy
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
-- Agesilaus II

#Done #Honorable #Monument
I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.
-- Agesilaus II

#Men #Honor #Doe
If all men were just there would be no need of valor.
-- Agesilaus II

#Men #Would Be #Needs

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.
If you are not royalty, He is not King.
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
Modesty is not one of my virtues.
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

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