Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

When the Greeks were not willing to take his advice and break their agreements with Antipater [*](Either Antipater (Wyttenbach’s certain emendation) or Antigonus (MSS.) is too late for Archidamus III., who died in 338 B.C.) and Craterus the Macedonian, and be free, because of a feeling that the Spartans would be harsher than the Macedonians, he said, A sheep or a goat bleats always in the same way, but a man talks in a great variety of ways until he accomplishes what he has set his mind upon.