phocion

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When Phocion, the modest, the gentle Phocion, was led to execution, he turned to one of his fellow-sufferers, who was lamenting his own hard fate, is it not glory enough for you, says he, that you die with phocion?

An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006