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Xerxes wrote to him, ‘It is possible for you, by not fighting against God but by ranging yourself on my side, to be the sole ruler of Greece.’ But he wrote in reply, ‘If you had any knowledge of the noble things of life, you would refrain from coveting others' possessions; but for me to die for Greece is better than to be the sole ruler over the people of my race.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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