In answer to those who said that some members of the other royal house 1 were jealous of him he said, ‘So then, their own ill fortune will make them miserable and, besides that, the good fortune of myself and of my friends.’
1 The Spartans had wo kings and consequently two royal families.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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