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APOPHTHEGMES OF Diverse Persons.
DEmades the Orator, after the Death of Alexander, compared his Army to Polyphemus, who was Blind.
Dining one Day with Phocion, who fed ve∣ry coursly: how can a man, said he, that is satisfyed with so little, medle with Publick affairs? Or, trouble himself with the Govern∣ment.
To a Prince, who did some Actions unwor∣thy of his Dignity, he said, that Fortune had made him a Prince, and he had made himself a Sordid Fellow.
Antigonus observing a brave Soldier, whom he had caused to be cured of a long Sickness, to be less daring afterwards, aud demanding the Reason of it. It is your self, replyed he, that are the cause of it, by having cured me of that distemper which made me hate my life.