When others censured him for his violation of his oaths which he had made in Miletus he said that one must trick children with knuckle-bones, but men with oaths, 1
1 Repeated in Moralia, 330 F, where it is attributed to Dionysius; Moralia, 741 C; Diodorus, x. 9. 1; Dio Chysostom, Oration, lxxiv. (399 R., 640 M.); Polyaenus, Strategemata, i. 45. 3; and Aelian, Varia Historia, vii. 12, who says that some attribute it to Lysander, and others to Philip of Macedon.
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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