An idea from Parallel Lives

Crassus got rich buying burning houses cheap, then led an army into Parthia and died there. Alexander made the same kind of march east and won. To praise the one plan and mock the other is to “judge of the beginning unfairly by the results.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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