"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
"Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?""
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Source: Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 55 Phocion. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.
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