I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
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Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?***** ***** ***** ***** *****
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
~ Alexander The Great
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