1 # Translation template for 0 A.D. — Empires Ascendant.
2 # Copyright © 2014 Wildfire Games
3 # This file is distributed under the same license as the 0 A.D. — Empires Ascendant project.
6 # Ilya <ilya.crols@gmail.com>, 2014
9 "Project-Id-Version: 0 A.D.\n"
10 "POT-Creation-Date: 2017-12-29 09:06+0100\n"
11 "PO-Revision-Date: 2017-12-29 15:18+0000\n"
12 "Last-Translator: Adrián Chaves Fernández <adriyetichaves@gmail.com>\n"
13 "Language-Team: Lojban (http://www.transifex.com/wildfire-games/0ad/language/jbo/)\n"
15 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
16 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
18 "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n"
20 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.js:6
25 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.js:7
26 msgid "AI will be disabled for this player."
29 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:55
34 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:71
35 msgctxt "civilization"
39 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:72
40 msgid "Picks one civilization at random when the game starts."
43 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:110
45 msgid "* %(username)s is not ready."
48 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:111
52 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:112
53 msgid "State that you are ready to play."
56 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:116
58 msgid "* %(username)s is ready!"
61 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:117
65 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:118
66 msgid "Stay ready even when the game settings change."
69 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:123
70 msgid "I'm not ready!"
73 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:124
74 msgid "State that you are not ready to play."
77 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:147
78 msgid "Game settings have been changed"
81 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:148
83 msgid "%(username)s has joined"
84 msgstr "%(username)s cmibi'o"
86 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:149
88 msgid "%(username)s has left"
89 msgstr "%(username)s cliva"
91 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:150
93 msgid "%(username)s has been kicked"
96 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:151
98 msgid "%(username)s has been banned"
101 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:152
103 msgid "%(username)s %(message)s"
106 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:153
108 msgid "<%(username)s>"
111 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:163
116 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:164
118 msgid "All maps except naval and demo maps."
121 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:170
125 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:171
127 msgid "Maps where ships are needed to reach the enemy."
130 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:176
134 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:177
136 msgid "These maps are not playable but for demonstration purposes only."
139 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:182
143 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:183
145 msgid "Maps that are brand new in this release of the game."
148 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:188
152 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:189
154 msgid "Maps that come with scripted events and potentially spawn enemy units."
157 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:194
161 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:195
163 msgid "Every map of the chosen maptype."
166 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:404
170 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:405
171 msgid "Select a map type."
174 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:428
178 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:429
179 msgid "Select a map filter."
182 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:444
186 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:445
187 msgid "Select a map to play on."
190 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:459
194 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:460
195 msgid "Select map size. (Larger sizes may reduce performance.)"
198 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:474
202 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:475
203 msgid "Select the flora and fauna."
206 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:490
207 msgid "Number of Players"
210 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:491
211 msgid "Select number of players."
214 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:511
215 msgid "Population Cap"
218 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:518
219 msgid "Select population limit."
222 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:521
225 "Warning: There might be performance issues if all %(players)s players reach "
226 "%(popCap)s population."
229 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:539
230 msgid "Starting Resources"
233 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:542
235 msgid "Initial amount of each resource: %(resources)s."
238 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:545
239 msgid "Select the game's starting resources."
242 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:560
246 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:561
247 msgid "Set time where no attacks are possible."
250 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:574
251 msgid "Victory Condition"
254 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:575
255 msgid "Select victory condition."
258 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:590
262 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:591
264 "Total number of relics spawned on the map. Relic victory is most realistic "
265 "with only one or two relics. With greater numbers, the relics are important "
266 "to capture to receive aura bonuses."
269 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:605
270 msgid "Relic Duration"
273 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:606
274 msgid "Minutes until the player has achieved Relic Victory."
277 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:620
278 msgid "Wonder Duration"
281 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:621
282 msgid "Minutes until the player has achieved Wonder Victory."
285 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:635
289 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:636
290 msgid "Select game speed."
293 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:702
294 msgid "Chose the civilization for this player"
297 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:742
298 msgid "Hero Garrison"
301 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:743
302 msgid "Toggle whether heroes can be garrisoned."
305 #. Translation: Make sure to differentiate between the revealed map and
306 #. explored map options!
307 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:757
311 #. Translation: Make sure to differentiate between the revealed map and
312 #. explored map options!
313 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:760
314 msgid "Toggle revealed map (see everything)."
317 #. Translation: Make sure to differentiate between the revealed map and
318 #. explored map options!
319 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:776
323 #. Translation: Make sure to differentiate between the revealed map and
324 #. explored map options!
325 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:779
326 msgid "Toggle explored map (see initial map)."
329 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:790
330 msgid "Disable Treasures"
333 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:791
334 msgid "Disable all treasures on the map."
337 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:802
338 msgid "Disable Spies"
341 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:803
342 msgid "Disable spies during the game."
345 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:814
349 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:815
350 msgid "Toggle locked teams."
353 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:829
354 msgid "Last Man Standing"
357 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:830
359 "Toggle whether the last remaining player or the last remaining set of allies"
363 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:843
367 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:844
368 msgid "Toggle the usability of cheats."
371 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:857
375 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:858
376 msgid "Toggle if this game will be rated for the leaderboard."
379 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:884
381 msgid "Press %(hotkey)s to autocomplete playernames or settings."
384 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:892
385 msgid "Return to the lobby."
386 msgstr "rapli nerkla cu mutku'a"
388 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:893
389 msgid "Return to the main menu."
392 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:897
396 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:903
397 msgid "Start a new game with the current settings."
400 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:904
402 "Start a new game with the current settings (disabled until all players are "
406 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:958
408 msgid "Configure AI: %(description)s."
411 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1493
412 msgctxt "map selection"
416 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1495
417 msgid "Pick any of the given maps at random."
420 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1518
425 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1519
426 msgid "Pick a biome at random."
429 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1811 gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1853
434 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1816
435 msgctxt "option value"
439 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1846
443 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1846
447 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1940
449 msgid "%(playerName)s %(romanNumber)s"
452 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2143
457 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2151
461 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2227
463 msgid "== %(message)s"
466 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2234
467 msgid "Unknown Player"
470 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2273
472 msgid "%(time)s %(message)s"
475 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2274
480 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2275
484 #: gui/loading/loading.js:48
486 msgid "Loading “%(map)s”"
489 #: gui/loading/loading.js:52
491 msgid "Generating “%(map)s”"
494 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):14
495 msgid "AI Configuration"
498 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):19
502 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):28
503 msgid "AI Difficulty:"
506 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):37
510 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):47
514 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):52
515 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):314
519 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):12
523 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):18
527 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):22
528 msgid "Loading map data. Please wait..."
531 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):38
533 msgstr "cmene le kelci"
535 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):42
539 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):46
540 msgid "Player Placement"
543 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):50
547 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):78
551 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):132
552 msgid "Show this message in the future"
555 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):199
559 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):216
560 msgid "Cheats enabled."
563 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):244
567 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):258
568 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):270
570 msgstr "za'u tikygau"
572 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):60
573 msgid "View civilization info"
576 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):73
578 "Reset any civilizations that have been selected to the default (random)"
581 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):88
582 msgid "Reset all teams to the default."
585 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):99
586 msgid "Pick a color."
589 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):102
590 msgid "Select player."
593 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):112
594 msgid "Configure AI settings."
595 msgstr "tikygau cu runmenli"
597 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):115
598 msgid "Select player's civilization."
601 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):119
602 msgid "Select player's team."
605 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):259
606 msgid "See more game options"
609 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):315
610 msgid "Close more game options window"
613 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:1
615 "\"Zeus \\[...] established his law: wisdom comes through suffering. \\[...] "
616 "So men against their will learn to practice moderation. \\[...] Such grace "
617 "is harsh and violent.\" - Aeschylus (\"Oresteia\", I. 176-183)"
620 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:2
622 "\"She \\[Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.\" - Aeschylus "
623 "(\"Oresteia\", I. 406)"
626 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:3
628 "\"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he "
629 "cannot trust a friend.\" - Aeschylus (\"Prometheus Bound\", 224-225)"
632 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:4
634 "\"Time in the long run teaches all things.\" - Aeschylus (\"Prometheus "
638 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:5
640 "\"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.\" - Aeschylus (\"Seven "
641 "Against Thebes\", 592)"
644 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:6
645 msgid "\"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.\" - Aeschylus (fragment 383)"
648 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:7
650 "\"The gods help those that help themselves.\" - Aesop (\"Hercules and the "
654 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:8
656 "\"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.\" - Aesop (\"The"
657 " Ant and the Grasshopper\")"
660 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:9
661 msgid "\"Union gives strength.\" - Aesop (\"The Bundle of Sticks\")"
664 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:10
666 "\"Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.\" - "
667 "Aesop (\"The Fox and the Goat\")"
670 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:11
672 "\"Familiarity breeds contempt; acquaintance softens prejudices.\" - Aesop "
673 "(\"The Fox and the Lion\")"
676 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:12
678 "\"Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.\" - Aesop (\"The Frog and the "
682 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:13
683 msgid "\"Slow and steady wins the race.\" - Aesop (\"The Hare and the Tortoise\")"
686 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:14
688 "\"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.\" - Aesop "
689 "(\"The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox Hunting\")"
692 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:15
694 "\"Enemies' promises were made to be broken.\" - Aesop (\"The Nurse and the "
698 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:16
699 msgid "\"Any excuse will serve a tyrant.\" - Aesop (\"The Wolf and the Lamb\")"
702 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:17
704 "\"If I have done anything noble, that is a sufficient memorial; if I have "
705 "not, all the statues in the world will not preserve my memory.\" - Agesilaos"
706 " II of Sparta (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XVI. \"Sayings of Spartans\", 215a)"
709 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:18
711 "\"Spartans do not ask how many, only where the enemy are.\" - Agis II of "
712 "Sparta (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XVI. \"Sayings of Spartans\", 215d)"
715 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:19
717 "\"Weep not for me, as I suffer unjustly, I am in a happier situation than my"
718 " murderers.\" - Agis IV of Sparta upon seeing one of his executioners cry "
719 "(Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Agis\", sec. 20)"
722 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:20
724 "\"Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.\" - Alexander the "
725 "Great (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 22)"
728 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:21
730 "\"It is very servile to live in luxury, but very royal to toil. \\[...] "
731 "Don't you know that the end and object of conquest is to avoid the vices and"
732 " infirmities of the subdued?\" - Alexander the Great (Plutarch, \"Parallel "
733 "Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 40)"
736 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:22
738 "\"Glorious are the deeds of those who undergo labour and run the risk of "
739 "danger; and it is delightful to live a life of valor and to die leaving "
740 "behind immortal glory.\" - Alexander the Great, addressing his troops "
741 "(Arrian, \"The Anabasis of Alexander\", 5.26)"
744 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:23
746 "\"I for one think that to a brave man there is no end to labours except the "
747 "labours themselves, provided they lead to glorious achievements.\" - "
748 "Alexander the Great, addressing his troops (Arrian, \"The Anabasis of "
752 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:24
754 "\"If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes \\[of Sinope].\" - "
755 "Alexander the Great, impressed by the simplicity of the philosopher he had "
756 "met (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XXII. \"On the Fortunes of Alexander the "
760 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:25
762 "\"To the strongest!\" - Alexander the Great, on his death bed, when asked "
763 "who should succeed him as king (Arrian, \"The Anabasis of Alexander\", 7.26)"
766 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:26
768 "\"I do not steal victory.\" - Alexander the Great, when suggested to raid "
769 "the Persians at night (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 31)"
772 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:27
774 "\"Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak"
775 " and poor, but will be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.\" - "
776 "Anacharsis (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Solon\", sec. 5)"
779 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:28
781 "\"The agora is an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave"
782 " covetously.\" - Anacharsis, a Scythian philosopher who travelled to Greece "
783 "(Diogenes Laertius, \"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", "
787 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:29
789 "\"It was not by taking care of the fields, but of ourselves, that we "
790 "acquired those fields.\" - Anaxandridas II of Sparta (Plutarch, \"Moralia\","
791 " XVI. \"Sayings of Spartans\", 217a)"
794 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:30
796 "\"States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.\""
797 " - Antisthenes (Diogenes Laertius, \"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent "
798 "Philosophers\", Antisthenes, sec. 5)"
801 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:31
803 "\"The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.\" - Archilochus "
807 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:32
809 "\"Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world.\" - Archimedes, on "
810 "his usage of the lever (Diodorus Siculus, \"The Library of History\", "
811 "fragments of book XXVI, sec. 18)"
814 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:33
816 "\"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of "
817 "building high walls and ships of war.\" - Aristophanes (\"Birds\")"
820 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:34
822 "\"It is obligatory, especially for a philosopher, to sacrifice even one's "
823 "closest personal ties in defense of the truth.\" - Aristotle (\"Nicomachean "
824 "Ethics\", I. 1096a.11)"
827 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:35
829 "\"Happiness depends on leisure; for we are busy to have leisure, and make "
830 "war to live in peace.\" - Aristotle (\"Nicomachean Ethics\", X. 1177b.4)"
833 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:36
835 "\"Man is by nature a political animal.\" - Aristotle (\"Politics\", I. "
839 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:37
841 "\"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them "
842 "of their arms.\" - Aristotle (\"Politics, V. 1311a.11)"
845 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:38
847 "\"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what "
848 "others do only from fear of the law.\" - Aristotle (Diogenes Laertius, \"The"
849 " Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", Aristotle, sec. 20)"
852 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:39
854 "\"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his "
855 "enemies, for the hardest victory is over the self.\" - Aristotle (Stobaeus, "
856 "\"Florilegium\", 223)"
859 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:40
861 "\"Alexander himself, plagued by thirst, with great pain and difficulty "
862 "nevertheless led the army on foot \\[...]. At this time a few of the light-"
863 "armed soldiers \\[...] found some water \\[...], poured the water into a "
864 "helmet and carried it to him. He took it, and commending the men who brought"
865 " it, immediately poured it upon the ground in the sight of all.\" - Arrian "
866 "about Alexander's march through the Gedrosian desert (\"The Anabasis of "
870 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:41
872 "\"Thrusting his spear into Mithridates' face, he \\[Alexander] hurled him to"
873 " the ground. Then Rhoesaces \\[a Persian] \\[...] struck him on the head "
874 "with his sword. \\[...] Alexander hurled him too to the ground, piercing "
875 "with his lance through his breastplate into his chest. Sphithridates \\[a "
876 "Persian] had already raised his sword against Alexander from behind when "
877 "Clitus \\[...] cut his arm off.\" - Arrian about the Battle of the Granicus "
878 "(\"The Anabasis of Alexander\", 1.15)"
881 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:42
883 "\"Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who "
884 "must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or retreat out of cowardice.\""
885 " - Aspasia (Plato, \"Menexenus\", 246b)"
888 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:43
890 "\"Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!\" - Augustus, after three "
891 "legions were annihilated in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (Suetonius, "
892 "\"Divus Augustus\", sec. 23)"
895 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:44
897 "\"In my nineteenth year, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I "
898 "raised an army with which I liberated the state, which was oppressed by the "
899 "tyranny of a faction.\" - Augustus, in his autobiography (\"Res Gestae Divi "
903 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:45
905 "\"Wars, both civil and foreign, I waged throughout the world, on sea and "
906 "land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The "
907 "foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save "
908 "rather than to destroy.\" - Augustus, in his autobiography (\"Res Gestae "
909 "Divi Augusti\", sec. 3)"
912 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:46
914 "\"Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have "
915 "adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.\" - Bias of Priene (Diogenes"
916 " Laertius, \"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", Bias, sec. 5)"
919 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:47
921 "\"How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if "
922 "baldness were a cure for sorrow.\" - Bion of Borysthenes (Cicero, \"Tusculan"
923 " Disputations\", III. 26)"
926 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:48
928 "\"He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.\" - Bion of "
929 "Borysthenes, referring to a wealthy miser (Diogenes Laertius, \"The Lives "
930 "and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", Bion, sec. 50)"
933 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:49
935 "\"Woe to the Defeated!\" - Brennus, Gaulish chieftain who had seized Rome "
936 "(with the exception of a garrison on Capitoline Hill). When Camillus arrived"
937 " from Veii and besieged him, he negotiated his withdrawal for 1000 pounds of"
938 " gold, but not without using false weights and adding the weight of his "
939 "sword on the scale when the Romans complained (Polybius, \"Histories\", II. "
943 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:50
945 "\"Robbery, slaughter, plunder, they \\[the Romans] deceivingly name empire; "
946 "they make a wasteland and call it peace.\" - Calgacus, Caledonian chieftain "
947 "in a speech before the Battle of Mons Graupius (Tacitus, \"Agricola\", 30)"
950 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:51
951 msgid "\"Set a thief to catch a thief.\" - Callimachus (\"Epigrams\", 44)"
954 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:52
956 "\"All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule "
957 "us.\" - Cato the Elder (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", III. \"Sayings of Romans\", "
961 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:53
963 "\"The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.\" - Cato the Elder "
964 "(Plutarch, \"Moralia\", III. \"Sayings of Romans\", 198f)"
967 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:54
969 "\"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.\" - Cato the "
970 "Elder (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Cato the Elder\", sec. 9)"
973 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:55
975 "\"Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.\" - Cato the "
976 "Elder, who ended all speeches in his later life with this statement "
977 "(Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Cato the Elder\", sec. 27)"
980 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:56
982 "\"If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.\" - "
983 "Chanakya (\"Arthashastra\", I. \"Concerning Discipline\", chapter 19)"
986 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:57
988 "\"Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while "
989 "he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes "
990 "punishment as deserved becomes respectable.\" - Chanakya (\"Arthashastra\", "
991 "I. \"Concerning Discipline\", chapter 4)"
994 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:58
996 "\"We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on "
997 "a razor's edge.\" - Corinthian epitaph to their fallen of the Persian Wars "
998 "(Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XI. \"On the Malice of Herodotus\", 870e)"
1001 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:59
1003 "\"Then the blood really flowed, for the two lines were so close that shield "
1004 "struck against shield, and they drove their swords into each other's faces. "
1005 "It was impossible for the weak or cowardly to retreat; man to man they "
1006 "fought like in single combat.\" - Curtius Rufus about the Battle of Issos "
1007 "(\"Histories of Alexander the Great\", III. 11.5)"
1010 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:60
1012 "\"I am Cyrus, who won for the Persians their empire. Therefore do not "
1013 "begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.\" - Cyrus the Great's "
1014 "epitaph (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 69)"
1017 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:61
1019 "\"I am Darius, the great king, king of kings, the king of Persia, the king "
1020 "of countries, \\[...] 23 lands in total.\" - Darius I. (Behistun "
1021 "inscription, column I, 1-6)"
1024 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:62
1026 "\"Phraortes was captured and brought before me. I cut off his nose, his "
1027 "ears, and his tongue, and I put out one eye, and he was kept in chains at my"
1028 " palace entrance, and all the people saw him. Then I crucified him in "
1029 "Ecbatana; and the men who were his foremost followers \\[...] I flayed and "
1030 "hung out their skins, stuffed with straw.\" - Darius I. (Behistun "
1031 "inscription, column II, 32)"
1034 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:63
1036 "\"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.\" - Democritus "
1040 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:64
1041 msgid "\"It is hard to be governed by one's inferior.\" - Democritus (fragment)"
1044 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:65
1046 "\"Physical strength is only noble in cattle, it is strength of character "
1047 "that is noble in men.\" - Democritus (fragment)"
1050 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:66
1052 "\"It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and "
1053 "treachery.\" - Demosthenes, in one of his many speeches against the rising "
1054 "Phillip II of Macedon (\"Olynthiac II\", 10)"
1057 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:67
1059 "\"Delivery, delivery, delivery.\" - Demosthenes, when asked what were the "
1060 "three most important elements of rhetoric (Cicero, \"De Oratore\", 3.213)"
1063 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:68
1065 "\"The Macedonians first raised an unearthly shout followed by the Persians "
1066 "answering, so that the whole hillside bordering the battlefield echoed back "
1067 "the sound, and that second roar was louder than the Macedonian war cry as "
1068 "five hundred thousand men shouted with one voice.\" - Diodorus Siculus about"
1069 " the Battle of Issos (\"The Library of History\", XVII., sec. 33)"
1072 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:69
1074 "\"Brasidas, taking his stand on the gangway, fought off from there the "
1075 "multitude of Athenians who converged upon him. And at the outset he slew "
1076 "many as they came at him, but after a while, as numerous missiles assailed "
1077 "him, he suffered many wounds on the front of his body.\" - Diodorus Siculus,"
1078 " on a brave Spartan at the Battle of Pylos (\"The Library of History\", "
1082 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:70
1084 "\"Plato had defined man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was "
1085 "applauded. Diogenes \\[of Sinope] plucked a fowl and brought it into the "
1086 "lecture-room with the words: Here is Plato's man. In consequence of which "
1087 "there was added to the definition: having broad nails.\" - Diogenes Laertius"
1088 " (\"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", \"Diogenes\", sec. 40)"
1091 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:71
1093 "\"I am a citizen of the world.\" - Diogenes of Sinope (Diogenes Laertius, "
1094 "\"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", \"Diogenes\", sec. 63)"
1097 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:72
1099 "\"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from "
1100 "yours.\" - Diogenes of Sinope (Stobaeus, \"Florilegium\", 51)"
1103 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:73
1105 "\"Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine.\" - Diogenes of Sinope to "
1106 "Alexander the Great, who asked if he could help in in any way (Plutarch, "
1107 "\"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 14)"
1110 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:74
1112 "\"The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself "
1113 "so.\" - Ennius (\"Annales\", fragment 31.493)"
1116 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:75
1118 "\"Stranger, go tell the Spartans that we lie here, obedient to their laws.\""
1119 " - Epitaph at Thermopylae for Leonidas and his men (Herodotus, \"The "
1120 "Histories\", VII. 228)"
1123 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:76
1125 "\"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.\" - Euripides "
1126 "(\"Iphigenia in Tauris\")"
1129 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:77
1131 "\"Brave men are made bolder by ordeals, but cowards achieve nothing.\" - "
1132 "Euripides (\"Iphigenia in Tauris\")"
1135 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:78
1137 "\"Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.\" - "
1138 "Euripides (\"Meleager\")"
1141 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:79
1142 msgid "\"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.\" - Euripides (\"Pirithous\")"
1145 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:80
1147 "\"Return with your shield, or on it.\" - Farewell of Spartan women to their "
1148 "warriors, implying that cowards would throw away their shield in battle to "
1149 "flee (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XVIII. \"Sayings of Spartan Women\", 241f)"
1152 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:81
1154 "\"I came, I saw, I conquered.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar, after routing "
1155 "Pharnaces II of Pontus in the first assault (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", "
1156 "\"Caesar\", sec. 50)"
1159 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:82
1161 "\"Men willingly believe what they wish.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar (\"De Bello "
1162 "Gallico\", III. 18)"
1165 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:83
1167 "\"It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry"
1168 " looking.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Antony\","
1172 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:84
1174 "\"After fighting from noon almost to sunset, with victory doubtful, the "
1175 "Germans, on one side charged the enemy in a compact body, and drove them "
1176 "back; and, when they were put to flight, the archers were surrounded and cut"
1177 " to pieces.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar about the Battle of Alesia (\"De Bello "
1178 "Gallico\", VII. 80)"
1181 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:85
1183 "\"All the centurions of the fourth cohort were slain, and the standard-"
1184 "bearer killed, the standard itself lost, almost all the centurions of the "
1185 "other cohorts either wounded or slain, and among them the chief centurion of"
1186 " the legion, Publius Sextius Baculus, a very valiant man, who was so "
1187 "exhausted by many and severe wounds, that he was already unable to support "
1188 "himself.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar about the Battle of the Sabis (\"De Bello "
1189 "Gallico\", II. 25)"
1192 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:86
1194 "\"But the enemy \\[...] displayed such great courage, that when the front "
1195 "rank had fallen the men behind them stood on them and continue the fight "
1196 "from on top of the corpses; when these were killed the pile of bodies grew "
1197 "higher, while the survivors used the heap as a vantage point for throwing "
1198 "missiles at our men, or catching our spears and throwing them back.\" - "
1199 "Gaius Julius Caesar about the Battle of the Sabis (\"De Bello Gallico\", II."
1203 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:87
1205 "\"The die is cast.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar, when crossing the Rubicon river "
1206 "with his legion into Italy, a capital offense that led to his civil war "
1207 "against Pompey (Suetonius, \"The Lives of the Twelve Caesars\", 32)"
1210 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:88
1212 "\"I'd rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.\" - Gaius "
1213 "Julius Caesar, when passing through a barbarian village in the Alps "
1214 "(Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Caesar\", sec. 11)"
1217 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:89
1219 "\"Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!\" - Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Plutarch,"
1220 " \"Parallel Lives\", \"Pompey\", sec. 10)"
1223 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:90
1225 "\"If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.\" - "
1226 "Hammurabi (Hammurabi's Code, sec. 196)"
1229 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:91
1231 "\"I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians "
1232 "against Rome.\" - Hannibal Barca (Polybius, \"Histories\", III. 85)"
1235 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:92
1237 "\"Let us now end the anxiety of the Romans, who can't wait for the death of "
1238 "an old man.\" - Hannibal Barca's last words before his suicide, in exile "
1239 "with Flaminius pressuring the local ruler to hand him over (Livius, \"Ab "
1240 "Urbe Condita\", XXXIX. 51)"
1243 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:93
1245 "\"Most inhuman and most arrogant of nations, they \\[the Romans] reckon the "
1246 "world as theirs and subject to their pleasure. With whom we are to be at "
1247 "war, with whom at peace, they think it right that they should determine.\" -"
1248 " Hannibal Barca, addressing his troops (Livius, \"Ab Urbe Condita\", XXI. "
1252 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:94
1254 "\"You must be brave and discard all hopes of anything but victory or "
1255 "death.\" - Hannibal Barca, addressing his troops (Livius, \"Ab Urbe "
1256 "Condita\", XXI. 44)"
1259 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:95
1261 "\"War is the father and king of all things: some he has made gods, and some "
1262 "men; some slaves and some free.\" - Herakleitos (Hippolytus, \"The "
1263 "Refutation of all Heresies\", IX. 4)"
1266 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:96
1268 "\"You could not step twice into the same river.\" - Herakleitos (Plato, "
1269 "\"Cratylos\", 402a)"
1272 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:97
1274 "\"It is better to be envied than to be pitied.\" - Herodotus (\"The "
1275 "Histories\", III. 52)"
1278 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:98
1280 "\"In soft regions are born soft men.\" - Herodotus (\"The Histories\", IX. "
1284 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:99
1286 "\"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no "
1287 "power.\" - Herodotus (\"The Histories\", IX. 16)"
1290 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:100
1292 "\"Although he \\[Xerces] had plenty of troops he had few men.\" - Herodotus "
1293 "(\"The Histories\", VII. 210)"
1296 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:101
1298 "\"The Lacedaemonians \\[Spartans] fought a memorable battle; they made it "
1299 "quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against "
1300 "amateurs.\" - Herodotus (\"The Histories\", VII. 211)"
1303 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:102
1305 "\"Being informed \\[...] that when the Barbarians discharged their arrows "
1306 "they obscured the light of the sun by the multitude of the arrows, he "
1307 "\\[Dienekes] \\[...] said that their guest \\[...] brought them very good "
1308 "news, for if the Medes obscured the light of the sun, the battle against "
1309 "them would be in the shade and not in the sun.\" - Herodotus describing "
1310 "Dienekes, reputedly the bravest Spartan soldier at Thermopylae (Polybius, "
1311 "\"Histories\", VII. 226)"
1314 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:103
1316 "\"The judgement given to Kroisus by each of the two oracles \\[Delphi and "
1317 "Thebes] was the same: If he sent an army against the Persians, he would "
1318 "destroy a great empire.\" - Herodotus, later mentioning that the empire "
1319 "Kroisos destroyed was his own (\"The Histories\", I. 53)"
1322 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:104
1324 "\"He \\[King Darius] asked who the Athenians were, and, being informed, "
1325 "called for his bow, and placing an arrow on the string, shot upward into the"
1326 " sky, saying, as he let fly the shaft: Grant me, Zeus, to revenge myself on "
1327 "the Athenians!\" - Herodotus, narrating how the Athenian support for the "
1328 "Ionian revolt caught the wrath of Darius I., the Persian king (\"The "
1329 "Histories\", V. 105)"
1332 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:105
1334 "\"He \\[King Darius] asked one of his servants every day, when his dinner "
1335 "was spread, three times to repeat to him: Master, remember the Athenians!\" "
1336 "- Herodotus, narrating how the Athenian support for the Ionian revolt lead "
1337 "to the Persian Wars (\"The Histories\", V. 105)"
1340 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:106
1342 "\"Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts "
1343 "into rustic Latium.\" - Horace (\"Epistles\", epistle I., 156-157)"
1346 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:107
1348 "\"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control "
1349 "you.\" - Horace (\"Epistles\", epistle II., 62)"
1352 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:108
1354 "\"It is your concern when your neighbour's wall is on fire.\" - Horace "
1355 "(\"Epistles\", epistle XVIII., 84)"
1358 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:109
1360 "\"It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.\" - Horace (\"Odes\", "
1361 "III., ode II., 13)"
1364 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:110
1365 msgid "\"I am Cyrus, king of the world...\" - Inscription (Cyrus Cylinder)"
1368 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:111
1370 "\"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their "
1371 "sons.\" - Kroisos, king of Lydia (Herodotus, \"The Histories\", I. 87)"
1374 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:112
1376 "\"Marry a good man, and bear good children.\" - Leonidas, to his wife who "
1377 "asked what to do if he died, before he left for Thermopylae (Plutarch, "
1378 "\"Moralia\", XVI. \"Sayings of Spartans\", 225a)"
1381 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:113
1383 "\"Come and get them!\" - Leonidas, to the Persian messenger who demanded "
1384 "that he and his men lay down their arms (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XVI. "
1385 "\"Sayings of Spartans\", 225c)"
1388 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:114
1390 "\"Some were discovered lying there alive, with thighs and tendons slashed, "
1391 "baring their necks and throats and bidding their conquerors drain the "
1392 "remnant of their blood. Others were found with their heads buried in holes "
1393 "dug in the ground. They had apparently made these pits for themselves.\" - "
1394 "Livius, describing the aftermath of the Battle of Cannae, where Hannibal "
1395 "inflicted the greatest defeat on the Romans in all their history (\"Ab Urbe "
1396 "Condita\", XXII. 51)"
1399 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:115
1401 "\"There lay thousands upon thousands of Romans \\[...]. Here and there "
1402 "amidst the slain rose a gory figure whose wounds had begun to throb with the"
1403 " chill of dawn, and was cut down by his enemies.\" - Livius, describing the "
1404 "aftermath of the Battle of Cannae, where Hannibal inflicted the greatest "
1405 "defeat on the Romans in all their history (\"Ab Urbe Condita\", XXII. 51)"
1408 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:116
1410 "\"A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.\" - "
1411 "Lycurgus of Sparta (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Lycurgus\", sec. 19)"
1414 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:117
1416 "\"Escape, yes, but this time with my hands, not my feet.\" - Marcus Junius "
1417 "Brutus, before committing suicide after losing a battle against Caesar's "
1418 "avengers (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Brutus\", sec. 52)"
1421 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:118
1423 "\"O, the times, O, the customs!\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (\"Against "
1424 "Catiline\", speech I)"
1427 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:119
1429 "\"A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its "
1430 "honor or its safety.\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (\"De Re Publica\", III., 23)"
1433 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:120
1435 "\"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of "
1436 "truth.\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (\"On Duties\", I., 13)"
1439 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:121
1441 "\"No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.\" - Marcus"
1442 " Tullius Cicero (\"On Old Age\", sec. 24)"
1445 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:122
1447 "\"Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.\" - Marcus Tullius "
1448 "Cicero (\"On the Laws\", III., sec. 3)"
1451 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:123
1453 "\"Endless money forms the sinews of war.\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero "
1454 "(\"Philippics\", Philippica V., sec. 5)"
1457 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:124
1459 "\"Laws are silent in time of war.\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (\"Pro Milone\","
1463 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:125
1465 "\"That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from "
1466 "murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!\" - Marcus "
1467 "Tullius Cicero, condemning Mark Anthony who had not killed him (yet) "
1468 "(\"Philippics\", Philippica II, sec. 5)"
1471 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:126
1473 "\"He did not even stand up to review his fleet when the ships were already "
1474 "at their fighting stations, but lay on his back and gazed up at the sky, "
1475 "never rising to show that he was alive until Marcus Agrippa had routed the "
1476 "enemy.\" - Mark Antony, taunting Augustus who delegated his duties as naval "
1477 "commander (Suetonius, \"Divus Augustus\", sec. 16)"
1480 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:127
1482 "\"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.\" - Menander (\"Lady of "
1483 "Andros\", fragment 50)"
1486 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:128
1487 msgid "\"The man who runs may fight again.\" - Menander (\"Monosticha\")"
1490 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:129
1492 "\"Whom the Gods love dies young.\" - Menander (\"The Double Deceiver\", "
1496 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:130
1497 msgid "\"I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.\" - Menander (fragment 545 K)"
1500 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:131
1502 "\"The greatest glory is won from the greatest dangers. When our fathers "
1503 "faced the Persians their resources could not compare to ours. In fact, they "
1504 "gave up even what they had. Then by wise counsels and daring deeds, not "
1505 "fortune and material advantages, they drove out the invaders and made our "
1506 "city what it is now.\" - Pericles (Thucydides, \"History of the "
1507 "Peloponnesian War\", I. 144.3-4)"
1510 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:132
1512 "\"Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of "
1513 "action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at "
1514 "all.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the "
1515 "first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II."
1519 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:133
1521 "\"We alone do not think that a man ignorant of politics interferes with "
1522 "nothing, we think he is good for nothing.\" - Pericles in his Funeral "
1523 "Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, "
1524 "\"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II. 40.2)"
1527 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:134
1529 "\"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.\" - "
1530 "Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of"
1531 " the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II. 41.5)"
1534 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:135
1536 "\"When you realise the power of Athens, consider it was won by valiant men "
1537 "who knew their duty, had a sense of dishonor in fight and, if their "
1538 "enterprises failed, would rather give their lives than lack in civic "
1539 "virtue.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the "
1540 "first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II."
1544 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:136
1546 "\"To heroes all earth is their tomb, and their virtues are remembered far "
1547 "from home where an epitaph declares them, in an unwritten record of the mind"
1548 " that will outlast any monument.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for "
1549 "Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of "
1550 "the Peloponnesian War\", II. 43.3)"
1553 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:137
1555 "\"Understand that happiness depends on freedom, and freedom depends on "
1556 "courage.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the "
1557 "first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II."
1561 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:138
1563 "\"The greatest glory for women is to be least talked about by men, whether "
1564 "for good or ill.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died"
1565 " in the first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian "
1569 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:139
1571 "\"Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, time.\" - Pericles, a cautious "
1572 "politician who avoided war (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Pericles\", sec."
1576 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:140
1578 "\"Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it "
1579 "is certainly dangerous to let it go.\" - Pericles, addressing the Athenian "
1580 "assembly after a plague had weakened the city (Thucydides, \"History of the "
1581 "Peloponnesian War\", II. 63.3)"
1584 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:141
1586 "\"War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced "
1587 "man fears its approach in his heart.\" - Pindar (fragment 110)"
1590 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:142
1592 "\"Themistocles robbed his fellow citizens of spear and shield, and degraded "
1593 "the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and the oar.\" - Plato, no friend of "
1594 "the Athenian navy (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Themistocles\", sec. 3)"
1597 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:143
1599 "\"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a "
1600 "nuisance after three days.\" - Plautus (\"The Swaggering Soldier\", Act III,"
1604 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:144
1606 "\"You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is "
1607 "immortal.\" - Plautus (\"Trinummus\", Act II, scene 4, 12)"
1610 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:145
1612 "\"He \\[Alexander] thought nothing invincible for the courageous, and "
1613 "nothing secure for the cowardly.\" - Plutarch (\"Parallel Lives\", "
1614 "\"Alexander\", sec. 58)"
1617 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:146
1619 "\"One \\[...] shot an arrow at him with such accuracy and force that it "
1620 "pierced his breastplate and got stuck in his ribs. \\[...] Alexander "
1621 "recoiled and sank to his knees. \\[...] At last Alexander killed the "
1622 "barbarian. But he received many wounds, at last was struck on the neck with "
1623 "a mace, and leaned against the city wall, his eyes still fixed upon his "
1624 "foes.\" - Plutarch about the Mallian Campaign (\"Parallel Lives\", "
1625 "\"Alexander\", sec. 63)"
1628 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:147
1630 "\"When the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents for him, Caesar burst"
1631 " out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had "
1632 "captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty.\" - Plutarch, who mentions later "
1633 "that Caesar got his money back and had his captors crucified (\"Parallel "
1634 "Lives\", \"Caesar\", sec. 2)"
1637 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:148
1639 "\"They \\[the Romans] want the centurions not so much to be adventurous and "
1640 "daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They "
1641 "do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but "
1642 "men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be "
1643 "ready to die at their posts.\" - Polybius (\"Histories\", VI. 24)"
1646 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:149
1648 "\"The Roman battle line is hard to break, since it allows every man to fight"
1649 " both individually and collectively; so that a formation can fight in any "
1650 "direction, with the maniples nearest to the point of danger wheeling around "
1651 "to face it.\" - Polybius (\"Histories\", XV. 15)"
1654 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:150
1656 "\"The Athenian people are always in the position of a ship without a "
1657 "commander. Fear of the enemy or a storm make the crew be of one mind and "
1658 "obey the helmsman, everything goes well; but if they recover \\[...] they "
1659 "quarrel with each other \\[...], and the result has often been that, after "
1660 "escaping the dangers of the widest seas and the most violent storms, they "
1661 "wreck their ship in harbour and close to shore.\" - Polybius on the Athenian"
1662 " constitution (\"Histories\", VI. 44)"
1665 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:151
1667 "\"Most of the Romans were trampled to death by the enormous weight of the "
1668 "elephants; the rest were shot down in their ranks by the numerous cavalry: "
1669 "and there were only a very few who attempted to save themselves by flight.\""
1670 " - Polybius on the Battle of Bagradas where a Roman army was annihilated "
1671 "during the First Punic War (\"Histories\", I. 34)"
1674 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:152
1676 "\"Hannibal gave the signal for attack; and at the same time sent orders to "
1677 "the troops lying in ambush on the hills to do the same, and thus delivered "
1678 "an assault upon the enemy at every point at once.\" - Polybius on the "
1679 "beginning of a Roman disaster at the Trasymene Lake (\"Histories\", III. 84)"
1682 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:153
1684 "\"In the phalanx, the men cannot turn around singly and defend themselves: "
1685 "this tribune, therefore, charged them \\[from behind] and killed all he "
1686 "could get at; until, unable to resist, they were forced to throw away their "
1687 "shields and flee.\" - Polybius, describing the defeat of Philip V. of "
1688 "Macedon by Flaminius in the Battle of Cynoscephalae (\"Histories\", XVIII. "
1692 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:154
1694 "\"The Roman order on the other hand is flexible: for every Roman, once armed"
1695 " and on the field, is equally well equipped for every place, time, or "
1696 "appearance of the enemy. He is, moreover, quite ready and needs to make no "
1697 "change, whether he is required to fight in the main body, or in a "
1698 "detachment, or in a single maniple, or even by himself.\" - Polybius, "
1699 "explaining how the Romans can defeat the Macedonian phalanx (\"Histories\", "
1703 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:155
1705 "\"Scipio \\[Aeminialus], when he looked upon the city \\[Carthage] as it was"
1706 " utterly perishing and in the last throes of its complete destruction, is "
1707 "said to have shed tears and wept openly for his enemies. And realized that "
1708 "all cities, nations, and authorities must, like men, meet their doom.\" - "
1709 "Polybius, eyewitness to the destruction of Carthage (\"Histories\", XXXVIII."
1713 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:156
1715 "\"One more such victory and the cause is lost!\" - Pyrrhus of Epirus after "
1716 "the Battle of Asculum, in which the Romans lost twice as many men but he "
1717 "lost a greater share of his armed forces (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", "
1718 "\"Pyrrhus\", sec. 21)"
1721 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:157
1723 "\"None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.\" - "
1724 "Pythagoras (Stobaeus, \"Florilegium\", 18)"
1727 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:158
1729 "\"Do not say few things in many words, but many things in few words.\" - "
1730 "Pythagoras (Stobaeus, \"Florilegium\", 24)"
1733 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:159
1735 "\"Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent.\" - Pythagoras "
1736 "(Stobaeus, \"Florilegium\", 24)"
1739 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:160
1741 "\"Unity strengthens even small states, while discord undermines the "
1742 "mightiest empires.\" - Sallust (\"The Jugurthine War\", 10.6)"
1745 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:161
1747 "\"Ungrateful fatherland, you will not even have my bones!\" - Scipio "
1748 "Africanus in his epitaph, after he who defeated Hannibal was repeatedly "
1749 "accused of crimes by the Roman Senate (Valerius Maximus, \"Nine books on "
1750 "memorable deeds and sayings\", 5.3.2)"
1753 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:162
1755 "\"Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.\" - Scipio "
1756 "Africanus, replying to Hannibal's offer of peace terms before the Battle of "
1757 "Zama (Livius, \"Ab Urbe Condita\", XXX. 31)"
1760 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:163
1762 "\"But tactical science is only one part of generalship. A general must be "
1763 "capable of equipping his forces and providing for his men. He must also be "
1764 "inventive, hardworking, and watchful, bullheaded and brilliant, friendly and"
1765 " fierce, straightforward and subtle.\" - Socrates (Xenophon, "
1766 "\"Memorabilia\", 3.1.6)"
1769 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:164
1771 "\"It is necessary to know the strength of the city and of the enemy, so "
1772 "that, if the city is stronger, one may recommend her to go to war, but if "
1773 "weaker than the enemy, may persuade her to beware.\" - Socrates (Xenophon, "
1774 "\"Memorabilia\", 3.6.9)"
1777 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:165
1779 "\"The unexamined life is not worth living.\" - Socrates, in his defense when"
1780 " trialled for corrupting the youth and not worshipping the proper gods (he "
1781 "later drank hemlock after the death sentence) - Plato (\"Apology\", 38a)"
1784 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:166
1786 "\"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you "
1787 "to live. Which is better God only knows.\" - Socrates, in his defense when "
1788 "trialled for corrupting the youth and not worshipping the proper gods (he "
1789 "later drank hemlock after the death sentence) - Plato (\"Apology\", 42a)"
1792 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:167
1794 "\"Walls and ships are nothing without men living together inside them.\" - "
1795 "Sophocles (\"Oedipus Rex\")"
1798 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:168
1800 "\"We accepted an empire that was offered to us and refused to give it up "
1801 "under the pressure of three of the strongest motives: fear, honor and "
1802 "interest. It was not we who set the example, for it has always been the law "
1803 "that the weak should be subject to the strong.\" - Speech of an Athenian "
1804 "embassy in Sparta (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", I. "
1808 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:169
1810 "\"He could boast that he found a city of brick and left it a city of "
1811 "marble.\" - Suetonius, commenting on the many building projects of Augustus "
1812 "in Rome (\"Divus Augustus\", sec 38)"
1815 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:170
1816 msgid "\"Moderation in all things.\" - Terence (\"The Girl from Andros\", 61)"
1819 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:171
1821 "\"Fortune favors the bold.\" - Terence in a play about a great Athenian "
1822 "admiral (\"Phormio\", 203)"
1825 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:172
1827 "\"I do not know how to tune the lyre or play the harp, but I do know how to "
1828 "raise a city that was small and unimportant to glory and greatness.\" - "
1829 "Themistocles, defending his lack of cultural sophistication (Plutarch, "
1830 "\"Parallel Lives\", \"Themistocles\", sec. 2)"
1833 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:173
1835 "\"Strike, if you will, but listen.\" - Themistocles, in a heated discussion "
1836 "with the Spartan fleet commander who threatened to beat him with his staff, "
1837 "before the Battle of Salamis (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", "
1838 "\"Themistocles\", sec. 11)"
1841 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:174
1843 "\"The Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your "
1844 "mother commands me, and you command your mother.\" - Themistocles, jokingly "
1845 "to his infant son (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Themistocles\", sec. 18)"
1848 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:175
1850 "\"So little pains does the mob take in finding out the truth, accepting "
1851 "readily the first story at hand.\" - Thucydides (\"History of the "
1852 "Peloponnesian War\", I. 21.3)"
1855 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:176
1857 "\"The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this caused in "
1858 "Sparta, made war inevitable.\" - Thucydides (\"History of the Peloponnesian "
1862 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:177
1864 "\"War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.\" - Thucydides (\"History"
1865 " of the Peloponnesian War\", I. 83.2)"
1868 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:178
1870 "\"It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat "
1871 "them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.\" - Thucydides "
1872 "(\"History of the Peloponnesian War\", III. 39.5)"
1875 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:179
1877 "\"This was the greatest action that happened in all this war, and all others"
1878 " that we have heard of amongst the Greeks, being to the victors most "
1879 "glorious and most calamitous to the vanquished. For they were utterly and at"
1880 " all points defeated, and their sufferings were many. Army and fleet and all"
1881 " they ever had perished, nothing was saved and few of so many ever returned "
1882 "home. Thus ended the Sicilian expedition.\" - Thucydides (\"History of the "
1883 "Peloponnesian War\", VII. 87.6-7)"
1886 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:180
1888 "\"As the world goes, justice is only a matter between equals, while the "
1889 "strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.\" - Thucydides, "
1890 "describing Athenians addressing the defeated Melians who are unwilling to "
1891 "surrender (\"History of the Peloponnesian War\", V. 89.1)"
1894 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:181
1896 "\"When the Lacedaemonians were no longer able to run after them, the "
1897 "skirmishers \\[...] all charged them at once, casting stones, arrows, and "
1898 "darts to the closest man at hand.\" - Thucydides, describing the Spartan "
1899 "disaster at the Battle of Sphacteria (\"History of the Peloponnesian War\", "
1903 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:182
1905 "\"The soldiers fight and die to support others in wealth and luxury and they"
1906 " are called masters of the world without owning a single piece of farmland "
1907 "of their own.\" - Tiberius Gracchus, advocating for land reform to the "
1908 "benefit of homeless and unemployed veterans whose lands had often been "
1909 "bought up why they were on campaign (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", "
1910 "\"Tiberius Gracchus\", sec. 9)"
1913 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:183
1915 "\"The wild beasts of Italy have their caves to retire to, but the brave "
1916 "veterans who spilled their blood in her cause have nothing left but air and "
1917 "light. They wander around homeless with their wives and children.\" - "
1918 "Tiberius Gracchus, advocating for land reform to the benefit of homeless and"
1919 " unemployed veterans whose lands had often been bought up why they were on "
1920 "campaign (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Tiberius Gracchus\", sec. 9)"
1923 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:184
1925 "\"Do not trust the horse, Trojans! I fear the Greeks even when they bring "
1926 "gifts.\" - Virgil (\"Aeneid\", II. 48-49)"
1929 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:185
1930 msgid "\"Prepared for either alternative.\" - Virgil (\"Aeneid\", II. 61)"
1933 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:186
1935 "\"Homer and Hesiod ascribed to their Gods all things that are a disgrace "
1936 "among mortals: stealing, adultery, deceiving one another.\" - Xenophanes "
1940 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:187
1942 "\"If oxen and horses and lions had hands, and could paint, and produce works"
1943 " of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and"
1944 " oxen like oxen, and make their God's bodies each in their own image.\" - "
1945 "Xenophanes (fragment 15)"
1948 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:188
1950 "\"The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed, the Thracians say "
1951 "theirs have blue eyes and red hair.\" - Xenophanes (fragment 16)"
1954 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:189
1956 "\"These are the right questions to ask, in winter around the fire \\[...]: "
1957 "Who are you, friend? What is your land? And how old were you when the Medes "
1958 "\\[Persians] came?\" - Xenophanes, likely referring to a punitive expedition"
1959 " against Greek cities in Ionia (fragment 17)"
1962 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:190
1964 "\"A prudent commander will never take risks unnecessarily, except when it is"
1965 " clear beforehand that he will have the advantage.\" - Xenophon (\"The "
1966 "Cavalry General\", 4.13)"
1969 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:191
1971 "\"Attack the enemy where he is weakest, even if that is a long way off, "
1972 "since hard work is less dangerous than a struggle against superior forces.\""
1973 " - Xenophon (\"The Cavalry General\", sec. 4.14)"
1976 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:192
1978 "\"He should be inventive, ready to exploit all circumstances, to make a "
1979 "small force appear large and a large one small, to appear absent when close "
1980 "at hand, and within striking distance when a long way off.\" - Xenophon "
1981 "(\"The Cavalry General\", sec. 5)"
1984 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:193
1986 "\"People are glad to obey the man whom they believe to be wiser than "
1987 "themselves in pursuing their interests.\" - Xenophon (\"The Education of "
1991 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:194
1993 "\"In his campaigns during summer the general must show that he can endure "
1994 "the sun better than the soldiers, in winter he must show he can endure cold "
1995 "better; and throughout all difficulties that he can endure hardships better."
1996 " This will help to make him loved by his men.\" - Xenophon (\"The Education "
1997 "of Cyrus\", 1.6.25)"
2000 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:195
2002 "\"Battles are decided more by the morale of men than their physical "
2003 "strength.\" - Xenophon (\"The Education of Cyrus\", 3.3.20)"
2006 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:196
2008 "\"Let's not give them enough time to arrange a defense, or to even recognise"
2009 " that we are human beings! We've got to appear to them like an "
2010 "uncontrollable nightmare of shields, swords, battle-axes and spears!\" - "
2011 "Xenophon (\"The Education of Cyrus\", 4.2.22)"
2014 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:197
2016 "\"I suppose you understand, men, that pursuing, dealing blows and death, "
2017 "plunder, fame, freedom, power - all these are prizes for the winners; the "
2018 "cowardly, of course, suffer the reverse.\" - Xenophon (\"The Education of "
2022 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:198
2024 "\"The man who wants that must be scheming and cunning, wily and deceitful, a"
2025 " thief and a robber, overreaching the enemy at every point.\" - Xenophon on "
2026 "how best to gain advantage over the enemy (\"The Education of Cyrus\", "
2030 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:199
2032 "\"My men have turned into women, and my women into men!\" - Xerxes, watching"
2033 " Artemisia ram a ship while most of his fleet suffered the reverse, not "
2034 "knowing that the sunk vessel was his own (Herodotus, \"The Histories\", "
2038 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:200
2040 "\"For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.\" - Zoroaster, founder of "
2041 "the Zoroastrian religion (\"Ahunuvaiti Gatha\", yasna 30.9)"