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Leonidas, the son of Anaxandridas and the brother of Cleomenes, in answer to a man who remarked, ‘Except for your being king, you are no different from the rest of us,’ said, ‘But if I were no better than you others, I should not be king.’
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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