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things are getting real… Battle of Marathon happened and now Xerxes is marching toward Hellas. Before he crosses the Hellespont with his army of supposedly 1.7 million men, Xerxes starts weeping and drops this absolute bar:
"That is because I was suddenly overcome by pity as I considered the brevity of human life, since not one of all these people here will be alive one hundred years from now."
— Dec 24, 2025 12:45PM
"That is because I was suddenly overcome by pity as I considered the brevity of human life, since not one of all these people here will be alive one hundred years from now."
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