An idea from Parallel Lives

Pericles lies dying while his friends count his 9 victories, thinking he can’t hear. He can. Those wins owed a lot to luck, he says, and other generals have had them. What he was proudest of: “no Athenian, through my means, ever wore mourning.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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