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

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or collapse:

    “So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear,
    Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost;
    Evil, be thou my Good: by thee at least
    Divided empire with Heaven’s King I hold,
    By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign;
    As Man ere long, and this new World, shall know.””
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

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