Great Throughts Treasury
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Xerxes I, aka Xerxes The Great NULL
Persian King, Remembered for his Invasion of Greece, Murdered by Artabanus who was Commander of the Royal Bodyguard
"Great gains are now won except by great risks."
"I am Xerxes, great king, king of kings, the king of all countries which speak all kinds of languages, the king of the entire big far-reaching earth."
"I am moved to pity, when I think of the brevity of human life, seeing that of all this host of men not one will still be alive in a hundred years? time."
"Mark my words: It is through the ears you can touch a man to pleasure or rage. Let the spirit which dwells there hear good things, and it will fill the body with delight; let it hear bad, and it will swell with fury."
"Only by great risks can great results be achieved."