At another time he went into his son's house, and, observing a vast number of gold and silver drinking-cups, he exclaimed, ‘There is no despot in you, for with all the drinking-cups which you are always getting from me you have not made for yourself a single friend.’
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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