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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
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Attributed in "Duce (1922-42)" in TIME magazine (2 August 1943)
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An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
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Attributed to Alexander the Great, in The British Battle Fleet : Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day (1915) by Frederick Thomas Jane

 

Benito Mussolini

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Variants quoted as an anonymous proverb:
Better a herd of sheep led by a lion than a herd of lions led by a sheep.
A flock of sheep led by a lion was more powerful than a flock of lions led by a sheep.
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
It were better to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.
An army of sheep led by a lion, will defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
An army of sheep led by a lion would be superior to an army of lions led by a sheep.
Unsourced attribution to Alexander: I would not fear a pack of lions led by a sheep, but I would always fear a flock of sheep led by a lion.

 

Alexander the Great

 

Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: [...] The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.

 

David

 

It is better to have sheep led by a lion than lions led by a sheep.

 

Alexander the Great

 

An army composed of sheep but led by a lion is more powerful than an army of lions led by a sheep.

 

Alexander the Great

 

To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.

 

Benito Mussolini