Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

He said that the best physician was the man who did not allow his patients to rot, but buried them quickly.

Paedaretus, when someone said that the enemy were many in number, remarked,Then we shall be the more famous, for we shall kill more men.