“Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth — these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.”
Source: In Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War https://books.google.com/books?id=w-WNO_TOgOQC&dq=Xenophon%27s%20Cyrus%20the%20Great%3A%20The%20Arts%20of%20Leadership%20and%20War&hl=fr&source=gbs_book_other_versions (2006) p. 116, also quoted in "9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great" http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/04/19/9-timeless-leadership-lessons-from-cyrus-the-great/ at Forbes.com (19 April 2012)
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Cyrus the Great 5
King and founder of the Achaemenid Empire -600–-530 BCRelated quotes
“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”
Source: Anthology of Black Humor
“How did you die?"
"We er…. drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big bathtub.”
Source: The Lightning Thief
7 May 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“There are three things you do only once in your life: born, die and voting on PT!”
Original: (pt) Existem três coisas que você só faz uma vez na vida: nascer, morrer e votar no PT!
Poem: The Faithless Shepherdess http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-faithless-shepherdess/
Interview at Brown's official site http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/faqs.html
Context: Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as absolute historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
