"Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die."
"O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones."
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Source: Epitaph to Cyrus. Plutarch: The Age of Alexander. Book by Plutarch, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, p. 326, 1973.
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