Sulla
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How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?
— To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in "Sylla" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden
Sulla
Roman dictator and general
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He marched his own army on Rome to seize power, then purged his enemies through proscription lists before resigning voluntarily — the general who showed Caesar and Pompey that force could break the Republic and still let you walk away.
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Sulla rose during the war against Jugurtha, capturing the Numidian king though Marius claimed the glory, then fought Germanic tribes and Italian rebels, winning the Grass Crown at Nola. Elected consul in 88 BC, he lost command of the eastern war to a political deal, so he marched his legions into Rome — the first general to do it — and drove out Marius and his allies. While Sulla crushed Mithridates at Chaeronea and Orchomenos, Marius and Cinna seized Rome and declared him an enemy; by the time he returned in 82 BC both were dead, and he destroyed their successors at the Colline Gate. He reviv…
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Sulla
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I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.
— On calling an end to the sacking of Athens, after a plea on its behalf by two Athenians loyal to Rome, as quoted in The Story of Rome :
Sulla
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No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
— His self-made epitaph, as quoted in Heroes of History : A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
Sulla
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He ought to have worked at the oar before steering the vessel.
— Upon being handed the head of his enemy Gaius Marius the Younger (Also translated as: "First you must learn to pull an oar, only then can
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