Capítulo 48
[48.1] Leotychidas the First, when somebody remarked to him that he was very changeable, said, Yes, because of varying occasion; not like all you because of your baseness.
[48.2] In answer to the man who asked how any man could best preserve his present state of good fortune, he said, By not trusting everything to chance.
[48.3] Being asked what freeborn boys had best learn, he said, Those things which may help them when they become men. Cf. the note on Moralia, 213 D (67), supra.
[48.4] When someone inquired for what reason the Spartans drank so little, he said,So that others may not deliberate over us, but we over others.