Xerxes

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
― Euripides

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”
― Euripides, Trojan Women

“Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae