Index: ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/gui/text/quotes.txt =================================================================== --- ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/gui/text/quotes.txt +++ ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/gui/text/quotes.txt @@ -14,19 +14,19 @@ “Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.” \n— Aesop (“The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox Hunting”) “Enemies' promises were made to be broken.” \n— Aesop (“The Nurse and the Wolf”) “Any excuse will serve a tyrant.” \n— Aesop (“The Wolf and the Lamb”) -“If I have done anything noble, that is a sufficient memorial; if I have not, all the statues in the world will not preserve my memory.” \n— Agesilaus II of Sparta (Plutarch, “Moralia”, XVI. “Sayings of Spartans”, 215a) -“Spartans do not ask how many, only where the enemy are.” \n— Agis II of Sparta (Plutarch, “Moralia”, XVI. “Sayings of Spartans”, 215d) +“If I have done anything noble, that is a sufficient memorial; if I have not, all the statues in the world will not preserve my memory.” \n— Agesilaus II of Sparta (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “Sayings of Spartans”, 215a) +“Spartans do not ask how many, only where the enemy are.” \n— Agis II of Sparta (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “Sayings of Spartans”, 215d) “Weep not for me, as I suffer unjustly, I am in a happier situation than my murderers.” \n— Agis IV of Sparta upon seeing one of his executioners cry (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Agis”, sec. 20) “Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.” \n— Alexander the Great (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 22) “It is very servile to live in luxury, but very royal to toil. \[…] Don't you know that the end and object of conquest is to avoid the vices and infirmities of the subdued?” \n— Alexander the Great (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 40) “Glorious are the deeds of those who undergo labor and run the risk of danger; and it is delightful to live a life of valor and to die leaving behind immortal glory.” \n— Alexander the Great, addressing his troops (Arrian, “The Anabasis of Alexander”, 5.26) “I for one think that to a brave man there is no end to labors except the labors themselves, provided they lead to glorious achievements.” \n— Alexander the Great, addressing his troops (Arrian, “The Anabasis of Alexander”, 5.26) -“If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes \[of Sinope].” \n— Alexander the Great, impressed by the simplicity of the philosopher he had met (Plutarch, “Moralia”, XXII. “On the Fortunes of Alexander the Great”, 332a–b) +“If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes \[of Sinope].” \n— Alexander the Great, impressed by the simplicity of the philosopher he had met (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “On the Fortunes of Alexander the Great”, 332a–b) “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”, “Anacharsis”, 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) +“It was not by taking care of the fields, but of ourselves, that we acquired those fields.” \n— Anaxandridas II of Sparta (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “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) “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) @@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ “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) -“All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.” \n— Cato the Elder (Plutarch, “Moralia”, III. “Sayings of Romans”, 198e) -“The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.” \n— Cato the Elder (Plutarch, “Moralia”, III. “Sayings of Romans”, 198f) +“All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.” \n— Cato the Elder (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “Sayings of Romans”, 198e) +“The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.” \n— Cato the Elder (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “Sayings of Romans”, 198f) “Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.” \n— Cato the Elder (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Cato the Elder”, sec. 9) “Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.” \n— Cato the Elder, who ended all speeches in his later life with this statement (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Cato the Elder”, sec. 27) “If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.” \n— Chanakya (“Arthashastra”, I. “Concerning Discipline”, chapter 19) “Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.” \n— Chanakya (“Arthashastra”, I. “Concerning Discipline”, chapter 4) -“We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.” \n— Corinthian epitaph to their fallen of the Persian Wars (Plutarch, “Moralia”, XI. “On the Malice of Herodotus”, 870e) +“We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.” \n— Corinthian epitaph to their fallen of the Persian Wars (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “On the Malice of Herodotus”, 870e) “Then the blood really flowed, for the two lines were so close that shield struck against shield, and they drove their swords into each other's faces. It was impossible for the weak or cowardly to retreat; man to man they fought like in single combat.” \n— Curtius Rufus about the Battle of Issus (“Histories of Alexander the Great”, III. 11.5) “I am Cyrus, who won for the Persians their empire. Therefore do not begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.” \n— Cyrus the Great's epitaph (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 69) “I am Darius, the great king, king of kings, the king of Persia, the king of countries, \[…] 23 lands in total.” \n— Darius I (Behistun inscription, column I, 1–6) @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ “Brave men are made bolder by ordeals, but cowards achieve nothing.” \n— Euripides (“Iphigenia in Tauris”) “Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.” \n— Euripides (“Meleager”) “Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.” \n— Euripides (“Pirithous”) -“Return with your shield, or on it.” \n— Farewell of Spartan women to their warriors, implying that cowards would throw away their shield in battle to flee (Plutarch, “Moralia”, XVIII. “Sayings of Spartan Women”, 241f) +“Return with your shield, or on it.” \n— Farewell of Spartan women to their warriors, implying that cowards would throw away their shield in battle to flee (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “Sayings of Spartan Women”, 241f) “I came, I saw, I conquered.” \n— Caesar, after routing Pharnaces II of Pontus in the first assault (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Caesar”, sec. 50) “Men willingly believe what they wish.” \n— Caesar (“De Bello Gallico”, III. 18) “It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.” \n— Caesar (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Antony”, sec. 11) @@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ “It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.” \n— Horace (“Odes”, III., ode II., 13) “I am Cyrus, king of the world…” \n— Inscription (Cyrus Cylinder) “In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.” \n— Croesus, king of Lydia (Herodotus, “The Histories”, I. 87) -“Marry a good man, and bear good children.” \n— Leonidas, to his wife who asked what to do if he died, before he left for Thermopylae (Plutarch, “Moralia”, XVI. “Sayings of Spartans”, 225a) -“Come and get them!” \n— Leonidas, to the Persian messenger who demanded that he and his men lay down their arms (Plutarch, “Moralia”, XVI. “Sayings of Spartans”, 225c) +“Marry a good man, and bear good children.” \n— Leonidas, to his wife who asked what to do if he died, before he left for Thermopylae (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “Sayings of Spartans”, 225a) +“Come and get them!” \n— Leonidas, to the Persian messenger who demanded that he and his men lay down their arms (Plutarch, “Moralia”, “Sayings of Spartans”, 225c) “Some were discovered lying there alive, with thighs and tendons slashed, baring their necks and throats and bidding their conquerors drain the remnant of their blood. Others were found with their heads buried in holes dug in the ground. They had apparently made these pits for themselves.” \n— Livy, describing the aftermath of the Battle of Cannae, where Hannibal inflicted the greatest defeat on the Romans in all their history (“History of Rome”, XXII. 51) “There lay thousands upon thousands of Romans \[…]. Here and there amidst the slain rose a gory figure whose wounds had begun to throb with the chill of dawn, and was cut down by his enemies.” \n— Livy, describing the aftermath of the Battle of Cannae, where Hannibal inflicted the greatest defeat on the Romans in all their history (“History of Rome”, XXII. 51) “A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.” \n— Lycurgus of Sparta (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Lycurgus”, sec. 19)