"Philip, remember that thou art mortal."
— Mortality
January 1, 1970
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Author unknown. Supposedly, words Philip of Macedon had a servant repeat in the audience-room. Reported in Samuel A. Bent, Short Sayings of Great Men (1882), p. 437. Similarly, "Remember thou, too, art a man". Words a slave would be bidden to whisper now and again to the triumphal conqueror returning in state to Rome. John L. Stoddard, Lectures, vol. 8 (1911), p. 263–64.
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Author unknown. Supposedly, words Philip of Macedon had a servant repeat in the audience-room. Reported in Samuel A. Bent, Short Sayings of Great Men (1882), p. 437. Similarly, "Remember thou, too, art a man". Words a slave would be bidden to whisper now and again to the triumphal conqueror returning in state to Rome. John L. Stoddard, Lectures, vol. 8 (1911), p. 263–64.