Apophthegmata Laconica
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Areus, when some men commended, not their own wives, but certain wives of other men, said,
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By Heaven, there ought to be no random talk about fair and noble women, and their characters ought to be totally unknown save only to their consorts.
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Once upon a time, when he was passing through Selinus in Sicily, he saw inscribed upon a monument this elegiac couplet: Here at Selinus these men, who tyrc.nny strove to extinguish, Brazen-clad Ares laid low; nigh to our gates were they slain. Whereupon he said,
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You certainly deserved to die for trying to extinguish tyranny when it was ablaze; rather you ought to have let it burn itself out completely.
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