3000 BCE – 500 CE
Classical antiquity — Greece, Rome, and the great empires of the Mediterranean and East.
I cannot show the images of my ancestors, but I can show the spoils and the scars I have won.
— Gaius Marius
"I cannot show the images of my ancestors, but I can show the spoils and the scar..."
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are w..."
I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me…
— Cao Cao
"I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me."
I never learned how to tune a harp, but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory.
— Themistocles
"I never learned how to tune a harp, but I know how to raise a small and obscure ..."
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
— Alexander the Great
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
Wine before us, let us sing; how brief is the span of mortal life.
"Wine before us, let us sing; how brief is the span of mortal life."
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity."
Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not even have my bones.
— Scipio Africanus
"Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not even have my bones."
I came, I saw, I conquered.
— Julius Caesar
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
I leave two daughters — the victory at Leuctra and the victory at Mantinea.
— Epaminondas
"I leave two daughters — the victory at Leuctra and the victory at Mantinea."
"Success always calls for greater generosity."
It is better that the guilty go unpunished than that the innocent be condemned.
— Trajan
"It is better that the guilty go unpunished than that the innocent be condemned."
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