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{ "nick": "I_Would_Say", "name": "Nathan Benjamin" },
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{ "nick": "Paal_101", "name": "Paul Basar" },
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“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man fears its approach in his heart.” \n— Pindar (fragment 110)
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“Themistocles robbed his fellow citizens of spear and shield, and degraded the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and the oar.” \n— Plato, no friend of the Athenian navy (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 3)
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“No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.” \n— Plautus (“The Swaggering Soldier”, Act III, scene 1, 146)
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“You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal.”\n— Plautus (“Trinummus”, Act II, scene 4, 13–14)
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“If you spend a thing you cannot have it too.”\n— Plautus (“Trinummus”, Act II, scene 4, 13–14)
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“He \[Alexander] thought nothing invincible for the courageous, and nothing secure for the cowardly.” \n— Plutarch (“Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 58)
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“One \[…] shot an arrow at him with such accuracy and force that it pierced his breastplate and got stuck in his ribs. \[…] Alexander recoiled and sank to his knees. \[…] At last Alexander killed the barbarian. But he received many wounds, at last was struck on the neck with a mace, and leaned against the city wall, his eyes still fixed upon his foes.” \n— Plutarch about the Mallian Campaign (“Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 63)
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“When the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents for him, Caesar burst out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty.” \n— Plutarch, who mentions later that Caesar got his money back and had his captors crucified (“Parallel Lives”, “Caesar”, sec. 2)
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“The man who wants that must be scheming and cunning, wily and deceitful, a thief and a robber, overreaching the enemy at every point.” \n— Xenophon on how best to gain advantage over the enemy (“The Education of Cyrus”, 1.6.26)
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“My men have turned into women, and my women into men!” \n— Xerxes, watching Artemisia ram a ship while most of his fleet suffered the reverse, not knowing that the sunk vessel was his own (Herodotus, “The Histories”, VIII. 88)
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“For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.” \n— Zoroaster, founder of the Zoroastrian religion (“Ahunuvaiti Gatha”, yasna 30.9)
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“Do not, I beg you, disturb that.” \n— Archimedes to a Roman soldier who was about to kill him while he was studying mathematical figures on the ground (Valerius Maximus, “Memorable Deeds and Sayings” Book VIII, ext. 7)
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“It was a greater victory for him to conquer his resentment than to defeat the enemy.” \n— Marcus Furius Camillus (Livy, “Ab Urbe Condita” Book 21)
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“These [my children] are my jewels.” \n— Cornelia Africana (mother of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus) to a wealthy visitor showing off her opulent jewelry (Valerius Maximus, “Memorable Deeds and Sayings” Book IV, Chapter 4)
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“I will appeal to Philip, but to Philip sober.” \n— Foreign woman to King Philip of Macedon having received a poor ruling while he was drunk (Valerius Maximus, “Memorable Deeds and Sayings” Book VI, Chapter 2)
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“Now the empire has fallen from gold to iron and rust.” \n— Cassius Dio referring to the Year of the Five Emperors (“Roman History” Book 73)
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“The man who struck his wife or child, laid violent hands on the holiest of holy things.” \n— Plutarch (“Life of Cato”, 20)
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“It is unbearable to lose one's native land.” \n— Seneca the Younger (“Consolatio ad Helvium”, 12.6)
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“I believed I was perishing with the world, and the world with me.” \n— Pliny the Younger describing the eruption of Vesuvius (Letter 2: Epistulae 6.20)
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“This is a woman's resolve; as for men, they may live and be slaves.” \n— Boudicca, rallying against Roman occupation (Tacitus's Annals, Book 14, Chapter 35)
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“There are two things, knowledge and opinion; one makes its possessor know, the other to be ignorant.” \n— (Hippocratic treatise known as “The Law”, part of the Hippocratic Corpus)
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“Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.” \n— Caligula (Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Book 30)
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