Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1224
AUTHOR:
Author unknown
QUOTATION:
Philip, remember that thou art mortal.
ATTRIBUTION:
Author unknown. Supposedly, words Philip of Macedon had a servant repeat in the audience-room.—Samuel A. Bent, Short Sayings of Great Men, p. 437 (1882).
Similarly, “Remember thou, too, art a man.”—Words a slave would be bidden to whisper now and again to the triumphal conqueror returning in state to Rome.—John L. Stoddard, Lectures, vol. 8, pp. 263–64 (1911).
