And, whereas others made glory the end of their daring, the end of his glory was his mother’s gladness; the delight she took to hear him praised and to see him crowned, and her weeping for joy in his embraces rendered him in his own thoughts the most honoured and most happy person in the world.
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And he [Epaminondas] had the advantage, indeed, to have both his parents partake with him, and enjoy the pleasure of his good fortune. But Marcius [Coriolanus], believing himself bound to pay his mother Volumnia all that gratitude and duty which would have belonged to his father, had he also been alive, could never satiate himself in his tenderness and respect to her. He took a wife, also, at her request and wish, and continued, even after he had children, to live still with his mother, without parting families.
Source:
Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Coriolanus." Plutarch's Lives. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 293. Print.
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