Index: binaries/data/mods/public/gui/text/quotes.txt =================================================================== --- binaries/data/mods/public/gui/text/quotes.txt +++ binaries/data/mods/public/gui/text/quotes.txt @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ “To the strongest!” \n— Alexander the Great, on his death bed, when asked who should succeed him as king (Arrian, “The Anabasis of Alexander”, 7.26) “I do not steal victory.” \n— Alexander the Great, when suggested to raid the Persians at night (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 31) “Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but will be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.” \n— Anacharsis (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Solon”, sec. 5) -“The agora is an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously.” \n— Anacharsis, a Scythian philosopher who traveled to Greece (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, Anarchsis, sec. 5) +“The agora is an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously.” \n— Anacharsis, a Scythian philosopher who traveled to Greece (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, “Anarchsis”, sec. 5) “It was not by taking care of the fields, but of ourselves, that we acquired those fields.” \n— Anaxandridas II of Sparta (Plutarch, “Moralia”, XVI. “Sayings of Spartans”, 217a) -“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.” \n— Antisthenes (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, Antisthenes, sec. 5) +“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.” \n— Antisthenes (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, “Antisthenes”, sec. 5) “The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.” \n— Archilochus (fragment 201) “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world.” \n— Archimedes, on his usage of the lever (Diodorus Siculus, “The Library of History”, fragments of book XXVI, sec. 18) “It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.” \n— Aristophanes (“Birds”) @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ “Happiness depends on leisure; for we are busy to have leisure, and make war to live in peace.” \n— Aristotle (“Nicomachean Ethics”, X. 1177b.4) “Man is by nature a political animal.” \n— Aristotle (“Politics”, I. 1253a.2) “Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” \n— Aristotle (“Politics, V. 1311a.11) -“I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.” \n— Aristotle (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, Aristotle, sec. 20) +“I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.” \n— Aristotle (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, “Aristotle”, sec. 20) “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over the self.” \n— Aristotle (Stobaeus, “Florilegium”, 223) “Alexander himself, plagued by thirst, with great pain and difficulty nevertheless led the army on foot \[…]. At this time a few of the light-armed soldiers \[…] found some water \[…], poured the water into a helmet and carried it to him. He took it, and commending the men who brought it, immediately poured it upon the ground in the sight of all.” \n— Arrian about Alexander's march through the Gedrosian desert (“The Anabasis of Alexander”, 6.26) “Thrusting his spear into Mithridates' face, he \[Alexander] hurled him to the ground. Then Rhoesaces \[a Persian] \[…] struck him on the head with his sword. \[…] Alexander hurled him too to the ground, piercing with his lance through his breastplate into his chest. Sphithridates \[a Persian] had already raised his sword against Alexander from behind when Clitus \[…] cut his arm off.” \n— Arrian about the Battle of the Granicus (“The Anabasis of Alexander”, 1.15) @@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ “Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!” \n— Augustus, after three legions were annihilated in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (Suetonius, “Divus Augustus”, sec. 23) “In my nineteenth year, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army with which I liberated the state, which was oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.” \n— Augustus, in his autobiography (“Res Gestae Divi Augusti”, sec. 1) “Wars, both civil and foreign, I waged throughout the world, on sea and land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save rather than to destroy.” \n— Augustus, in his autobiography (“Res Gestae Divi Augusti”, sec. 3) -“Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.” \n— Bias of Priene (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, Bias, sec. 5) +“Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.” \n— Bias of Priene (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, “Bias”, sec. 5) “How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.” \n— Bion of Borysthenes (Cicero, “Tusculan Disputations”, III. 26) -“He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.” \n— Bion of Borysthenes, referring to a wealthy miser (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, Bion, sec. 50) +“He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.” \n— Bion of Borysthenes, referring to a wealthy miser (Diogenes Laertius, “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers”, “Bion”, sec. 50) “Woe to the Defeated!” \n— Brennus, Gaulish chieftain who had seized Rome (with the exception of a garrison on Capitoline Hill). When Camillus arrived from Veii and besieged him, he negotiated his withdrawal for 1000 pounds of gold, but not without using false weights and adding the weight of his sword on the scale when the Romans complained (Polybius, “Histories”, II. 18) “Robbery, slaughter, plunder, they \[the Romans] deceivingly name empire; they make a wasteland and call it peace.” \n— Calgacus, Caledonian chieftain in a speech before the Battle of Mons Graupius (Tacitus, “Agricola”, 30) “Set a thief to catch a thief.” \n— Callimachus (“Epigrams”, 44)