Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

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

When he was bent on marrying a second wife, his children inquired whether he had any fault to find with them. By no means, he said, but only

praise—and the desire to have other children like you. [*](Cf. Moralia, 480 D. Plutarch in his Life of Cato Major, chap. xxiv. (351 B), says that Cato as well as Peisistratus made his remark.)