Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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Whenever Pericles was about to take command of the army, as he was donning his general’s cloak, he used to say to himself,
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Take care, Pericles; you are about to command free-born men who are both Greeks and Athenians.
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He bade the Athenians remove Aegina,
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that sore on the eye of the Piraeus.
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To a friend who wanted him to bear false witness, which included also an oath, he answered that he was a friend as far as the altar.
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On his death-bed he accounted himself happy in that no Athenian, because of him, had ever put on a black garment.
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