QOTD: The Noble Things of Life
"If you had any knowledge of the noble things of life, you would refrain from coveting others' possessions; but for me to die for Greece is better than to be the sole ruler over the people of my race."-- King Leonidas of Sparta to King Xerxes I of Persia, before the Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC
(recorded by Plutarch in Sayings of Spartans [Greek: Apophthegmata Laconica])
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