I am a friend to the right, of wrong I am not a friend. It is not my will that the weak should be ill-treated by the strong, nor is it my will that the strong should be ill-treated by the weak.
Politicians
Darius I
Third Achaemenid King of Kings (r. 522-486 BCE). He welded antiquity's largest realm — Thrace to the Indus — into the first administrative state via twenty satrapies, the Royal Road, and the daric, then lost at Marathon.
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Darius I's Other Quotes
By the grace of Ahura Mazda, these are the countries which I seized, together with this Persian army.
King Darius says: I dug this canal from the river called Pirâva (Nile) which flows in Egypt, to the sea which goes from Persia. Afterwards this canal was dug as I commanded, and ships went from Egypt through this canal to Persia, as was my desire.
I am Darius, the great king, king of kings, king of countries containing all kinds of men, king in this great earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid, a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage.
I am Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries.
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