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 @@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ “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”, “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) @@ -109,6 +107,8 @@ “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) +“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— Kauṭilya (“Arthashastra”, I.4.8–10) +“If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.”\n— Kauṭilya (“Arthashastra” I.19.1) “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)