Arrian Quotes

• Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

  Arrian

  Heart, Men, Trying

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• Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

  Arrian

  War, School, Men

  Arrian (1970). “The life of Alexander the Great”

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• Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

  Arrian

  Leader, Greek, Done

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