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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8890 Plutarh AD 46?-AD 120 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8890
AUTHOR:Plutarch (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120)
QUOTATION:A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, “He ails nothing,” “It is because, sir,” he replied, “I use none of your physic.”
ATTRIBUTION:Laconic Apophthegms. Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax.