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Being asked this same question by another man, 1 he said, ‘My father bequeathed to me his kingdom, but not his luck.’
1 By Philip of Macedon, according to Aelian, Varia Historia, xii. 60.
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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