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Plutarch, Sayings Of The Spartans, 239-240ab

nan nan, Alcamenes, the son of Teleclus, when somebody inquired how a man could best keep a kingdom secure, said, If he should not hold his own advantage too high. , When another person sought to know the reason why he did not accept gifts from the Messenians, he said, Because if I took the gifts, it would be impossible to maintain peace with impartial regard for the laws. , When someone said that he lived a straitened life while possessed of plenty of property, he said, Yes, for it is a noble thing for one who possesses much to live according to reason and not according to his desires.

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bacchic	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
crown	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
delos	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
dionysus, heart	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
earth	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
identity	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
myth	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
ocean	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
orphic, see titans, zagreus	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
parnassus	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
snakes /serpents	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
sun	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
water, as cosmogonic element	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134
womb'	de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 134