Seleucid Empire/collapse 100%e2%80%9363 BC

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or collapse:

    “There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    “Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)