Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

Being held deserving of many gifts, and speedily becoming rich, [*](Cf. ibid. i. 138.) he said to his sons, Boys, we should be ruined now if we had not been ruined before! [*](Cf. Moralia, 328 F and 602 A; Plutarch’s Life of Themistocles, chap. xxix. (p. 126 F); Polybius, xxxix. 11 (-xl. 5).)