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“Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
― Julius Caesar

“As Alexander would confess years later, sex and sleep more than anything else reminded him that he was mortal. One”
― Philip Freeman, Alexander the Great

“For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
― Edward Said

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
― Omar N. Bradley

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name . . . Monarchy . . . has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them . . . for it does not belong to the majority of men to acquire virtue . . . Indeed, if ever there has been a prosperous democracy, it has in any case been at its best for only a brief period.’ Dio, early third century AD.1 Augustus”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

“From Delhi to Palam Is the realm of Shah Alam.”
― Abraham Eraly, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate

“There is something very wrong with a people who consider that the greatest that would ever be has already been, and that the best they can do is to duplicate the past.”
― Abraham Eraly, The Mughal Throne

“If a holy man eats half his loaf, he will give the other half to a beggar. But if a king conquers all the world, he will still seek another world to conquer. —SAADI, PERSIAN POET”
― Abraham Eraly, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate

“a saint with the heart of a devil, or a fiend with the soul of a saint.”
― Abraham Eraly, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate

“if he conquers, he obtains power and good fortune. If he perishes, he obtains paradise and bliss.’ The outcome of the battle therefore did not matter much to him.”
― Abraham Eraly, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate

“The pervasive attitude of fatalism among Indians of all classes was yet another factor affecting the spirit of Indian armies—victory and defeat were not in their hands, they believed; whatever was destined to happen would happen. This”
― Abraham Eraly, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate

“History has been so fascinated with Alexander the Great that it has overlooked the genius of his father. But by his supreme skill at diplomacy, his mastery of intrigue, and his revolutionary innovations in warfare, Philip laid the foundation for everything his son achieved. Yet”
― Philip Freeman, Alexander the Great

“Shame on the shepherd who runs and hides when wolves are coming to harm his flock.”
― Scott Mariani, The Armada Legacy

“Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.”
― Philip Freeman, Alexander the Great

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

“Though Stalin was no more to be trusted than was Hitler, and though he was responsible for the deaths of more citizens of his own country than Hitler in Germany, he was a much more cautious actor on the international stage.”
― Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism

“You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book.”
― Dr. Seuss

“It’s a sociological law that the more information you give people, the more government policy becomes dependent on public opinion.’ Those were the words of Rafael Safarov,”
― Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism

“He couldn’t change the past, and he couldn’t control the future. But he would beat the present into submission.”
― Joel Ohman, Meritropolis

“When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“For a story was only as good as its villain.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“Only trivial annoyances still matter. “If Greece goes bankrupt the bingo prizes will probably get smaller,” was Mrs. Schouten’s analysis of the eurozone crisis.”
― Hendrik Groen, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

“One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested interests – in the first place, the bureaucracies of the economic ministries and the regional party organizations.”
― Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism

“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching