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+===== Aelian, Varia Historia II.16 =====
+<blockquote>**CHAP. XVI. Of Phocion.** I esteem this action of **Phocion** (the son of Phocus) commendable also. Coming before a publick Assembly of Athenians, after he had reproved them for some ingratitude, he said, both wisely and sharply, "I had rather receive ill from you, then doe ill to you."
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+===== Aelian, Varia Historia XII.49  =====
+<blockquote>**Chap. XLIX. That Phocion forgave Injuries. Phocion, Son of Phocus**, who had been often General, was condemned to die ; and being in Prison ready to drink Hemlock, when the Executioner gave him the Cup, his Kinsmen asked him if he would say any thing to his Son. He answered, "I charge him that he bear no ill will to the Athenians for this Cup which I now drink." He who does not extol and admire the man, is, in my judgement, of little understanding.</blockquote>
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+===== Aelian, Varia Historia XIV.10 =====
+<blockquote>**Chap. X. How Phocion retorted upon Demades.** The Athenians preferred Demades to be their General before **Phocion** ; who being thus advanced grew high in his own esteem, and coming to Phocion, "Lend me, said he, that sordid Cloak which you used to wear in your Generalship." He answered, "You will never want any thing that is sordid, whilest you continue what you are."5
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+[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/varhist14.xhtml|Source]]</blockquote>
+===== Dio Chrysostom, Oration 73.7 =====
+<blockquote>And take the case of **Phocion** of a later period, who lived to be more than eighty years of age, and who for most of these years had served as general, had preserved the state in its moments of direst need, and had been dubbed excellent by those very Athenians — this man they were not content merely to put to death, nay, they would not even permit his corpse to rest in Attic soil, but cast it forth beyond their borders.
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+[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dio_Chrysostom/Discourses/73*.html|Source]]</blockquote>
+===== Marcus Aurelius, Book 11.13 =====
+<blockquote>13. Suppose any man shall despise me. Let him look to that himself. But I will look to this, that I be not discovered doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. Shall any man hate me? Let him look to it. But I will be mild and benevolent towards every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly, like the great **Phocion**, unless indeed he only assumed it. For the interior [parts] ought to be such, and a man ought to be seen by the gods neither dissatisfied with anything nor complaining. For what evil is it to thee, if thou art now doing what is agreeable to thy own nature, and art satisfied with that which at this moment is suitable to the nature of the universe, since thou art a human being placed at thy post in order that what is for the common advantage may be done in some way?
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+[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Thoughts_of_the_Emperor_Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus/Book_XI|Source]]</blockquote>