I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

Roman dictator and conqueror

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Reportedly said in his youth

Date / Period

1st century BC

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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html

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