"I am Xerxes, great king, king of kings, the king of all countries which speak all kinds of languages, the king of the entire big far-reaching earth." -- King Xerxes I, on foundation tablet at Persopolis, the capital city of the Persian empire "I am moved to pity, when I think of the brevity of human life, seeing that of all this host of men not one will still be alive in a hundred years time." -- King Xerxes I on surveying the army, c. 480 BC

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