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Whoever wishes to escape, let him save himself if he can; and whoever is ready to face death, let him follow me!

— Constantine XI Palaiologos

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God forbid that I should live an Emperor without an Empire. As my city falls, I will fall with it.

The city is fallen and I am still alive.

To surrender the city to you is beyond my authority or anyone else’s who lives in it, for all of us, after taking the mutual decision, shall die out of free will without sparing our lives.

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