“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”

—  Lucius Cornelius Sulla

His self-made epitaph, as quoted in Heroes of History : A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (2001) by Will Durant; variant translation: "...nor enemy harmed me"

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