"How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?"

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Source : Polybius, William Roger Paton (1960). “Polybius: the histories”

Polybius

#Kings Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.”
“Anyone can be a fisherman in May.”
“I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of the incredible brain-mind relationship... I have to believe all this had an intelligent beginning.”
“Everything in this world depends upon will.”
“Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.”
“We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school”
“A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.”
“It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.”

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