Apophthegmata Laconica
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Original / primary: Perseus Eng3
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Cleomenes, the son of Cleombrotus, when someone offered him fighting cocks and said that they would die fighting for victory, said,
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Well then, give me some of those that kill them, for those are better than these.
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