"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
"Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?"
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Source: The age of Alexander: nine Greek lives. Book by Plutarch, 1973.
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