Acerca de Sulla

Sulla, Dharwad es un pueblo en el distrito de Dharwad de Karnataka, India.

Resumen

Sulla, Dharwad es un pueblo en el distrito de Dharwad de Karnataka, India.

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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; in Plutarch, Life of Sulla (tr. John Dryden)
“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; in Plutarch, Life of Sulla (tr. John Dryden)
“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 Will Durant, Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (2001). Variant: ". . . nor enemy harmed me". Paraphrase: "No better friend, no worse enemy."
“He ought to have worked at the oar before steering the vessel.”
— Upon being handed the head of his enemy Gaius Marius the Younger; in William Smith, ed., A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1873), "Marius (II)". Variant: "First you must learn to pull an oar, only then can you take the helm."

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