All great things arise from small beginnings.
全ての偉大なことは小さな始まりから生まれる。
Military Strategists
Timur
The Turco-Mongol conqueror who built an empire from Central Asia to India, the Middle East, and Anatolia in the late 14th century (1336-1405). Timur claimed Genghis Khan's legacy while defeating every major power of his era — Ottoman, Mamluk, Delhi Sultanate — and transforming Samarkand into one of history's greatest cultural capitals.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Imagination rules the world.
-- Napoleon
The greatest joy of a conqueror is to drive his enemies before him, to seize their horses and treasure, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
-- Genghis Khan
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
-- Alexander the Great
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
-- Alexander the Great
The world is too small to have two kings.
-- Timur