“Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"”

— Plutarch

Rules for the Preservation of Health, 25
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46–127

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“Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"”

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