Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
Alexander the GreatTags: fear mercy punishment greek king tyrant barbarian beg messenger
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!
Alexander the GreatTags: freedom war free speech enemies danger persia greek greece battle soldiers slaves training asia luxury persians darius macedon medes thracians
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
SophoclesTags: classics destiny gods greek greece
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.
Diogenes LaertiusTags: life existence knowledge philosophy belief atheism philosopher metaphysics gods question greek greece obstacles agnosticism zeus the-gods pantheon
Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.
For our family, ourselves, and friends,
It is but sad Decay, so,
Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).
And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία).
Tags: life friendship girls family death sad heroism decay life-lessons maturity greek greece ancient hero life-philosophy me decline roman heroic payne roman-payne hebe aristeia
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