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 # David Sowa <isithere2@yahoo.com>, 2017
7 # enolp <enolp@softastur.org>, 2017
10 "Project-Id-Version: 0 A.D.\n"
11 "POT-Creation-Date: 2018-01-07 00:33+0100\n"
12 "PO-Revision-Date: 2018-01-07 04:01+0000\n"
13 "Last-Translator: Adrián Chaves Fernández <adriyetichaves@gmail.com>\n"
14 "Language-Team: Asturian (http://www.transifex.com/wildfire-games/0ad/language/ast/)\n"
16 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
17 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
19 "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
21 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.js:6
26 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.js:7
27 msgid "AI will be disabled for this player."
28 msgstr "La IA va desactivase-y a esti xugador."
30 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:56
35 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:72
36 msgctxt "civilization"
40 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:73
41 msgid "Picks one civilization at random when the game starts."
42 msgstr "Escueye al debalu una civilización al entamar la partida."
44 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:111
46 msgid "* %(username)s is not ready."
47 msgstr "* %(username)s nun ta llistu."
49 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:112
53 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:113
54 msgid "State that you are ready to play."
55 msgstr "Conseña que tas llistu pa xugar."
57 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:117
59 msgid "* %(username)s is ready!"
60 msgstr "* ¡%(username)s ta preparáu!"
62 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:118
64 msgstr "Siguir preparáu"
66 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:119
67 msgid "Stay ready even when the game settings change."
68 msgstr "Calténte llistu inclusive cuando cambien los axustes del xuegu."
70 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:124
71 msgid "I'm not ready!"
72 msgstr "¡Nun toi preparáu!"
74 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:125
75 msgid "State that you are not ready to play."
76 msgstr "Conseña que nun tas llistu pa xugar."
78 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:148
79 msgid "Game settings have been changed"
80 msgstr "Cambiaron los axustes"
82 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:149
84 msgid "%(username)s has joined"
85 msgstr "%(username)s xunióse"
87 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:150
89 msgid "%(username)s has left"
90 msgstr "%(username)s coló"
92 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:151
94 msgid "%(username)s has been kicked"
95 msgstr "Espuxóse a %(username)s"
97 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:152
99 msgid "%(username)s has been banned"
100 msgstr "%(username)s ta bloquiáu"
102 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:153
104 msgid "%(username)s %(message)s"
105 msgstr "%(username)s %(message)s"
107 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:154
109 msgid "<%(username)s>"
110 msgstr "<%(username)s>"
112 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:164
117 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:165
119 msgid "All maps except naval and demo maps."
120 msgstr "Tolos mapes sacantes los mapes navales y los mapes de demostranza."
122 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:171
124 msgstr "Mapes navales"
126 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:172
128 msgid "Maps where ships are needed to reach the enemy."
129 msgstr "Mapes nos que faen falta embarcaciones p'algamar al enemigu."
131 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:177
133 msgstr "Mapes de demostranza"
135 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:178
137 msgid "These maps are not playable but for demonstration purposes only."
138 msgstr "Estos mapes nun puen xugase sinón que sirven de demostranza."
140 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:183
142 msgstr "Mapes nuevos"
144 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:184
146 msgid "Maps that are brand new in this release of the game."
147 msgstr "Mapes que s'estrenaron nesta versión del xuegu."
149 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:189
151 msgstr "Mapes disparadores"
153 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:190
155 msgid "Maps that come with scripted events and potentially spawn enemy units."
156 msgstr "Mapes que tienen eventos programaos y que xenerarán unidaes."
158 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:195
162 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:196
164 msgid "Every map of the chosen maptype."
165 msgstr "Tolos mapes del tipu de mapa escoyíu."
167 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:406
169 msgstr "Tipu de mapa"
171 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:407
172 msgid "Select a map type."
173 msgstr "Escueyi'l tipu de mapa."
175 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:430
177 msgstr "Peñera de mapes"
179 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:431
180 msgid "Select a map filter."
181 msgstr "Escueyi una peñera mapes."
183 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:446
185 msgstr "Escoyer mapa"
187 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:447
188 msgid "Select a map to play on."
189 msgstr "Escueyi un mapa nel que xugar."
191 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:461
193 msgstr "Tamañu del mapa"
195 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:462
196 msgid "Select map size. (Larger sizes may reduce performance.)"
197 msgstr "Escueyi'l tamañu del mapa. (Los tamaños más grandes puen reducir el rindimientu)."
199 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:476
203 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:477
204 msgid "Select the flora and fauna."
205 msgstr "Esbilla la flora y la fauna."
207 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:492
208 msgid "Number of Players"
209 msgstr "Númberu de xugadores"
211 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:493
212 msgid "Select number of players."
213 msgstr "Escueyi'l númberu de xugadores."
215 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:513
216 msgid "Population Cap"
217 msgstr "Capacidá de población"
219 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:520
220 msgid "Select population limit."
221 msgstr "Escueyi la llende de la capacidá población."
223 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:523
226 "Warning: There might be performance issues if all %(players)s players reach "
227 "%(popCap)s population."
228 msgstr "Avisu: Pue que heba problemes de rindimientu si tolos xugadores %(players)s algamen una población de %(popCap)s."
230 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:541
231 msgid "Starting Resources"
232 msgstr "Recursos nicieros"
234 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:544
236 msgid "Initial amount of each resource: %(resources)s."
237 msgstr "La cantidá ñiciera de cada recursu: %(resources)s."
239 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:547
240 msgid "Select the game's starting resources."
241 msgstr "Escueyi los recursos nicieros de la partida."
243 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:562
247 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:563
248 msgid "Set time where no attacks are possible."
249 msgstr "Tiempu determináu no que naide nun ye a atacar."
251 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:576
252 msgid "Victory Condition"
253 msgstr "Condición de victoria"
255 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:577
256 msgid "Select victory condition."
257 msgstr "Escueyi la condición de victoria."
259 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:592
261 msgstr "Númberu de reliquies"
263 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:593
265 "Total number of relics spawned on the map. Relic victory is most realistic "
266 "with only one or two relics. With greater numbers, the relics are important "
267 "to capture to receive aura bonuses."
270 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:607
271 msgid "Relic Duration"
272 msgstr "Duración de reliquies"
274 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:608
275 msgid "Minutes until the player has achieved Relic Victory."
276 msgstr "Minutos hasta que'l xugador algamó la victoria de reliquies."
278 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:622
279 msgid "Wonder Duration"
280 msgstr "Duración de maraviya"
282 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:623
283 msgid "Minutes until the player has achieved Wonder Victory."
284 msgstr "Minutos hasta que'l xugador algamó la victoria de maraviyes."
286 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:637
288 msgstr "Velocidá del xuegu"
290 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:638
291 msgid "Select game speed."
292 msgstr "Escueyi la velocidá del xuegu."
294 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:652
298 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:654
299 msgid "Select the difficulty of this scenario."
302 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:719
303 msgid "Chose the civilization for this player"
304 msgstr "Escueyi la civilización d'esti xugador"
306 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:759
307 msgid "Hero Garrison"
308 msgstr "Guarnición de los héroes"
310 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:760
311 msgid "Toggle whether heroes can be garrisoned."
312 msgstr "Activa si quies guarecer a los héroes."
314 #. Translation: Make sure to differentiate between the revealed map and
315 #. explored map options!
316 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:774
318 msgstr "Mapa descubiertu"
320 #. Translation: Make sure to differentiate between the revealed map and
321 #. explored map options!
322 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:777
323 msgid "Toggle revealed map (see everything)."
324 msgstr "Activa'l mapa descubiertu (velo too)."
326 #. Translation: Make sure to differentiate between the revealed map and
327 #. explored map options!
328 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:793
330 msgstr "Mapa esploráu"
332 #. Translation: Make sure to differentiate between the revealed map and
333 #. explored map options!
334 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:796
335 msgid "Toggle explored map (see initial map)."
336 msgstr "Activa'l mapa esploráu (ver el mapa inicial)."
338 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:807
339 msgid "Disable Treasures"
340 msgstr "Desactivar les ayalgues"
342 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:808
343 msgid "Disable all treasures on the map."
344 msgstr "Desactiva toles ayalgues del mapa."
346 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:819
347 msgid "Disable Spies"
348 msgstr "Desactivar a los espíes"
350 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:820
351 msgid "Disable spies during the game."
352 msgstr "Desactiva a los espíes demientres la partida."
354 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:831
356 msgstr "Equipos fixos"
358 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:832
359 msgid "Toggle locked teams."
360 msgstr "Activa equipos fixos."
362 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:846
363 msgid "Last Man Standing"
364 msgstr "El caberu home de pie"
366 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:847
368 "Toggle whether the last remaining player or the last remaining set of allies"
370 msgstr "Activa si quies que gane'l caberu xugador o'l caberu grupu d'aliaos."
372 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:860
376 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:861
377 msgid "Toggle the usability of cheats."
378 msgstr "Activa l'usu de trucos."
380 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:874
382 msgstr "Partida evaluada"
384 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:875
385 msgid "Toggle if this game will be rated for the leaderboard."
386 msgstr "Activa si esta partida va evaluase pa la tabla de posiciones."
388 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:901
390 msgid "Press %(hotkey)s to autocomplete playernames or settings."
391 msgstr "Calca %(hotkey)s p'autocompletar los nomes de los xugadores o los axustes."
393 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:909
394 msgid "Return to the lobby."
395 msgstr "Tornar a la sala d'espera."
397 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:910
398 msgid "Return to the main menu."
399 msgstr "Tornar al menú principal."
401 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:914
403 msgstr "¡Aniciar partida!"
405 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:920
406 msgid "Start a new game with the current settings."
407 msgstr "Entama una partida nueva cola configuración actual."
409 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:921
411 "Start a new game with the current settings (disabled until all players are "
413 msgstr "Entama una partida nueva cola configuración actual (desactivao fasta que tolos xugadores tean llistos)"
415 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:975
417 msgid "Configure AI: %(description)s."
420 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1510
421 msgctxt "map selection"
425 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1512
426 msgid "Pick any of the given maps at random."
427 msgstr "Escueyi al debalu cualesquier mapa dau."
429 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1544
434 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1545
435 msgid "Pick a biome at random."
436 msgstr "Escueye un bioma al debalu."
438 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1866 gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1908
443 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1871
444 msgctxt "option value"
448 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1901
452 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1901
456 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:1995
458 msgid "%(playerName)s %(romanNumber)s"
459 msgstr "%(playerName)s %(romanNumber)s"
461 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2198
466 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2206
470 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2282
472 msgid "== %(message)s"
473 msgstr "== %(message)s"
475 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2289
476 msgid "Unknown Player"
477 msgstr "Xugador desconocíu"
479 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2328
481 msgid "%(time)s %(message)s"
482 msgstr "%(time)s %(message)s"
484 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2329
487 msgstr "\\[%(time)s]"
489 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:2330
493 #: gui/loading/loading.js:48
495 msgid "Loading “%(map)s”"
496 msgstr "Cargando «%(map)s»"
498 #: gui/loading/loading.js:52
500 msgid "Generating “%(map)s”"
501 msgstr "Xenerando «%(map)s»"
503 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):14
504 msgid "AI Configuration"
505 msgstr "Configuración de la IA"
507 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):19
509 msgstr "Xugador d'IA:"
511 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):28
512 msgid "AI Difficulty:"
513 msgstr "Dificultá de la IA:"
515 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):37
519 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):47
523 #: gui/aiconfig/aiconfig.xml:(caption):52
524 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):314
528 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):12
530 msgstr "Configuración de la partida"
532 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):18
536 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):22
537 msgid "Loading map data. Please wait…"
540 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):38
542 msgstr "Nome del xugador"
544 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):42
548 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):46
549 msgid "Player Placement"
550 msgstr "Allugamientu del xugador"
552 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):50
554 msgstr "Civilización"
556 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):78
560 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):132
561 msgid "Show this message in the future"
562 msgstr "Amuesa esti mensax nel futuru"
564 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):199
568 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):216
569 msgid "Cheats enabled."
570 msgstr "Trucos activaos."
572 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):244
576 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):258
577 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(caption):270
579 msgstr "Más opciones"
581 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):60
582 msgid "View civilization info"
583 msgstr "Ver la información de la civilización"
585 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):73
587 "Reset any civilizations that have been selected to the default (random)"
588 msgstr "Reafitar cualquier civilización que s'esbillare a la predeterminada (al debalu)"
590 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):88
591 msgid "Reset all teams to the default."
592 msgstr "Reafitar tolos equipos al predetermináu."
594 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):99
595 msgid "Pick a color."
596 msgstr "Escueyi una color."
598 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):102
599 msgid "Select player."
600 msgstr "Escueyi xugador."
602 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):112
603 msgid "Configure AI settings."
604 msgstr "Configurar los axustes de la IA."
606 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):115
607 msgid "Select player's civilization."
608 msgstr "Escueyi la civilización del xugador."
610 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):119
611 msgid "Select player's team."
612 msgstr "Escueyi l'equipu del xugador."
614 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):259
615 msgid "See more game options"
616 msgstr "Ver más opciones de partida"
618 #: gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.xml:(tooltip):315
619 msgid "Close more game options window"
620 msgstr "Zarrar el ventanu de más opciones de partida"
622 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:1
624 "\"Zeus \\[…] established his law: wisdom comes through suffering. \\[…] So "
625 "men against their will learn to practice moderation. \\[…] Such grace is "
626 "harsh and violent.\" - Aeschylus (\"Oresteia\", I. 176-183)"
629 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:2
631 "\"She \\[Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.\" - Aeschylus "
632 "(\"Oresteia\", I. 406)"
633 msgstr "«Traxo \\[Helena] a Ilio la destrucción como dote.» - Esquilo («Orestíada», I. 406)"
635 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:3
637 "\"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he "
638 "cannot trust a friend.\" - Aeschylus (\"Prometheus Bound\", 224-225)"
639 msgstr "«En cada tiranu hai esta enfermedá: nun confiar n'amigu dalu.» - Esquilo («Prometéu encadenáu», 224-225)"
641 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:4
643 "\"Time in the long run teaches all things.\" - Aeschylus (\"Prometheus "
645 msgstr "«El tiempu, al avieyar, too lo enseña.» - Esquilo («Prometéu encadenáu», 981)"
647 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:5
649 "\"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.\" - Aeschylus (\"Seven "
650 "Against Thebes\", 592)"
651 msgstr "«Nun quier paecer sinón ser el meyor.» - Esquilo («Siete contra Tebes», 592)"
653 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:6
654 msgid "\"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.\" - Aeschylus (fragment 383)"
655 msgstr "«Un babayu prósperu ye una pesada carga.» -Esquilo (fragmentu 383)"
657 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:7
659 "\"The gods help those that help themselves.\" - Aesop (\"Hercules and the "
661 msgstr "«Suplica a los dioses n'esforciándote tu mesmu, que nun ores en devanéu.» - Esopo («El carreteru y Hércules»)"
663 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:8
665 "\"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.\" - Aesop (\"The"
666 " Ant and the Grasshopper\")"
667 msgstr "«Ye meyor preparase agora pa los menesteres del mañana.» - Esopo («La formiga y la cantariella»)"
669 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:9
670 msgid "\"Union gives strength.\" - Aesop (\"The Bundle of Sticks\")"
671 msgstr "«La xunión fai la fuercia.» - Esopo («La fexe vares»)"
673 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:10
675 "\"Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.\" - "
676 "Aesop (\"The Fox and the Goat\")"
677 msgstr "«Enxamás nun confíes nel conseyu de quien ta metíu nun pilancu.» - Esopo («La rapiega y la cabra»)"
679 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:11
681 "\"Familiarity breeds contempt; acquaintance softens prejudices.\" - Aesop "
682 "(\"The Fox and the Lion\")"
683 msgstr "«La familiaridá enxendra l'enfotu.» - Esopo («La rapiega y el lleón»)"
685 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:12
687 "\"Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.\" - Aesop (\"The Frog and the "
689 msgstr "«La vanidá pue empobinar a l'autodestrucción.» - Esopo («La xaronca y el güe»)"
691 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:13
692 msgid "\"Slow and steady wins the race.\" - Aesop (\"The Hare and the Tortoise\")"
693 msgstr "«Ensin priesa pero ensin pausa.» - Esopo («La llebre y la tortuga»)"
695 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:14
697 "\"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.\" - Aesop "
698 "(\"The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox Hunting\")"
699 msgstr "«Ye meyor deprender de les desgracies de los demás.» - Esopo («El lleón, el burru y la rapiega»)"
701 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:15
703 "\"Enemies' promises were made to be broken.\" - Aesop (\"The Nurse and the "
705 msgstr "«Los enemigos faen promeses pa rompeles.» - Esopo («L'ama de cría y el llobu»)"
707 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:16
708 msgid "\"Any excuse will serve a tyrant.\" - Aesop (\"The Wolf and the Lamb\")"
709 msgstr "«Cualquier sida sirve a un tiranu.» - Esopo («El llobu y el corderu»)"
711 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:17
713 "\"If I have done anything noble, that is a sufficient memorial; if I have "
714 "not, all the statues in the world will not preserve my memory.\" - Agesilaos"
715 " II of Sparta (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XVI. \"Sayings of Spartans\", 215a)"
716 msgstr "«Si fixi daqué estraordinario, por eso vos alcordaréis de min; pero si non, nun m'estimarán nin toles estatues nin obra dalguna de los artesanos.» - Axesilao II d'Esparta (Plutarco, «Obres morales», XVI. «Máximes d'espartanos», 215a)"
718 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:18
720 "\"Spartans do not ask how many, only where the enemy are.\" - Agis II of "
721 "Sparta (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XVI. \"Sayings of Spartans\", 215d)"
722 msgstr "«Los lacedemonios nun entruguen cuántos enemigos, sinón úlos.» - Axis II d'Esparta (Plutarco, «Obres morales», XVI. «Máximes d'espartanos», 215d)"
724 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:19
726 "\"Weep not for me, as I suffer unjustly, I am in a happier situation than my"
727 " murderers.\" - Agis IV of Sparta upon seeing one of his executioners cry "
728 "(Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Agis\", sec. 20)"
729 msgstr "«Apara de llorar por min, hom, porque como muerro de miente illegal ya inxusta, toi en meyor situación que los asesinos.» - Axis IV d'Esparta al ver llorar a ún de los executores de so (Plutarco, «Vides paraleles», «Axis», seic. 20)"
731 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:20
733 "\"Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.\" - Alexander the "
734 "Great (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 22)"
735 msgstr "«Dixo \\[Alexandro'l Grande] que percayera na cuenta de ser mortal dormiendo y faciendo l'amor.» - Plutarco (Plutarco, «Vides paraleles», «Alexandro», seic. 22)"
737 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:21
739 "\"It is very servile to live in luxury, but very royal to toil. \\[…] Don't "
740 "you know that the end and object of conquest is to avoid the vices and "
741 "infirmities of the subdued?\" - Alexander the Great (Plutarch, \"Parallel "
742 "Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 40)"
745 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:22
747 "\"Glorious are the deeds of those who undergo labour and run the risk of "
748 "danger; and it is delightful to live a life of valor and to die leaving "
749 "behind immortal glory.\" - Alexander the Great, addressing his troops "
750 "(Arrian, \"The Anabasis of Alexander\", 5.26)"
753 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:23
755 "\"I for one think that to a brave man there is no end to labours except the "
756 "labours themselves, provided they lead to glorious achievements.\" - "
757 "Alexander the Great, addressing his troops (Arrian, \"The Anabasis of "
761 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:24
763 "\"If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes \\[of Sinope].\" - "
764 "Alexander the Great, impressed by the simplicity of the philosopher he had "
765 "met (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XXII. \"On the Fortunes of Alexander the "
769 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:25
771 "\"To the strongest!\" - Alexander the Great, on his death bed, when asked "
772 "who should succeed him as king (Arrian, \"The Anabasis of Alexander\", 7.26)"
775 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:26
777 "\"I do not steal victory.\" - Alexander the Great, when suggested to raid "
778 "the Persians at night (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 31)"
781 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:27
783 "\"Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak"
784 " and poor, but will be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.\" - "
785 "Anacharsis (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Solon\", sec. 5)"
788 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:28
790 "\"The agora is an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave"
791 " covetously.\" - Anacharsis, a Scythian philosopher who travelled to Greece "
792 "(Diogenes Laertius, \"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", "
796 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:29
798 "\"It was not by taking care of the fields, but of ourselves, that we "
799 "acquired those fields.\" - Anaxandridas II of Sparta (Plutarch, \"Moralia\","
800 " XVI. \"Sayings of Spartans\", 217a)"
803 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:30
805 "\"States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.\""
806 " - Antisthenes (Diogenes Laertius, \"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent "
807 "Philosophers\", Antisthenes, sec. 5)"
810 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:31
812 "\"The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.\" - Archilochus "
816 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:32
818 "\"Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world.\" - Archimedes, on "
819 "his usage of the lever (Diodorus Siculus, \"The Library of History\", "
820 "fragments of book XXVI, sec. 18)"
823 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:33
825 "\"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of "
826 "building high walls and ships of war.\" - Aristophanes (\"Birds\")"
829 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:34
831 "\"It is obligatory, especially for a philosopher, to sacrifice even one's "
832 "closest personal ties in defense of the truth.\" - Aristotle (\"Nicomachean "
833 "Ethics\", I. 1096a.11)"
836 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:35
838 "\"Happiness depends on leisure; for we are busy to have leisure, and make "
839 "war to live in peace.\" - Aristotle (\"Nicomachean Ethics\", X. 1177b.4)"
842 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:36
844 "\"Man is by nature a political animal.\" - Aristotle (\"Politics\", I. "
848 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:37
850 "\"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them "
851 "of their arms.\" - Aristotle (\"Politics, V. 1311a.11)"
854 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:38
856 "\"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what "
857 "others do only from fear of the law.\" - Aristotle (Diogenes Laertius, \"The"
858 " Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", Aristotle, sec. 20)"
861 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:39
863 "\"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his "
864 "enemies, for the hardest victory is over the self.\" - Aristotle (Stobaeus, "
865 "\"Florilegium\", 223)"
868 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:40
870 "\"Alexander himself, plagued by thirst, with great pain and difficulty "
871 "nevertheless led the army on foot \\[…]. At this time a few of the light-"
872 "armed soldiers \\[…] found some water \\[…], poured the water into a helmet "
873 "and carried it to him. He took it, and commending the men who brought it, "
874 "immediately poured it upon the ground in the sight of all.\" - Arrian about "
875 "Alexander's march through the Gedrosian desert (\"The Anabasis of "
879 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:41
881 "\"Thrusting his spear into Mithridates' face, he \\[Alexander] hurled him to"
882 " the ground. Then Rhoesaces \\[a Persian] \\[…] struck him on the head with "
883 "his sword. \\[…] Alexander hurled him too to the ground, piercing with his "
884 "lance through his breastplate into his chest. Sphithridates \\[a Persian] "
885 "had already raised his sword against Alexander from behind when Clitus \\[…]"
886 " cut his arm off.\" - Arrian about the Battle of the Granicus (\"The "
887 "Anabasis of Alexander\", 1.15)"
890 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:42
892 "\"Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who "
893 "must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or retreat out of cowardice.\""
894 " - Aspasia (Plato, \"Menexenus\", 246b)"
897 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:43
899 "\"Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!\" - Augustus, after three "
900 "legions were annihilated in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (Suetonius, "
901 "\"Divus Augustus\", sec. 23)"
904 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:44
906 "\"In my nineteenth year, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I "
907 "raised an army with which I liberated the state, which was oppressed by the "
908 "tyranny of a faction.\" - Augustus, in his autobiography (\"Res Gestae Divi "
912 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:45
914 "\"Wars, both civil and foreign, I waged throughout the world, on sea and "
915 "land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The "
916 "foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save "
917 "rather than to destroy.\" - Augustus, in his autobiography (\"Res Gestae "
918 "Divi Augusti\", sec. 3)"
921 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:46
923 "\"Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have "
924 "adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.\" - Bias of Priene (Diogenes"
925 " Laertius, \"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", Bias, sec. 5)"
928 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:47
930 "\"How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if "
931 "baldness were a cure for sorrow.\" - Bion of Borysthenes (Cicero, \"Tusculan"
932 " Disputations\", III. 26)"
935 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:48
937 "\"He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.\" - Bion of "
938 "Borysthenes, referring to a wealthy miser (Diogenes Laertius, \"The Lives "
939 "and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", Bion, sec. 50)"
942 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:49
944 "\"Woe to the Defeated!\" - Brennus, Gaulish chieftain who had seized Rome "
945 "(with the exception of a garrison on Capitoline Hill). When Camillus arrived"
946 " from Veii and besieged him, he negotiated his withdrawal for 1000 pounds of"
947 " gold, but not without using false weights and adding the weight of his "
948 "sword on the scale when the Romans complained (Polybius, \"Histories\", II. "
952 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:50
954 "\"Robbery, slaughter, plunder, they \\[the Romans] deceivingly name empire; "
955 "they make a wasteland and call it peace.\" - Calgacus, Caledonian chieftain "
956 "in a speech before the Battle of Mons Graupius (Tacitus, \"Agricola\", 30)"
959 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:51
960 msgid "\"Set a thief to catch a thief.\" - Callimachus (\"Epigrams\", 44)"
963 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:52
965 "\"All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule "
966 "us.\" - Cato the Elder (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", III. \"Sayings of Romans\", "
970 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:53
972 "\"The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.\" - Cato the Elder "
973 "(Plutarch, \"Moralia\", III. \"Sayings of Romans\", 198f)"
976 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:54
978 "\"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.\" - Cato the "
979 "Elder (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Cato the Elder\", sec. 9)"
982 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:55
984 "\"Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.\" - Cato the "
985 "Elder, who ended all speeches in his later life with this statement "
986 "(Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Cato the Elder\", sec. 27)"
989 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:56
991 "\"If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.\" - "
992 "Chanakya (\"Arthashastra\", I. \"Concerning Discipline\", chapter 19)"
995 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:57
997 "\"Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while "
998 "he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes "
999 "punishment as deserved becomes respectable.\" - Chanakya (\"Arthashastra\", "
1000 "I. \"Concerning Discipline\", chapter 4)"
1003 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:58
1005 "\"We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on "
1006 "a razor's edge.\" - Corinthian epitaph to their fallen of the Persian Wars "
1007 "(Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XI. \"On the Malice of Herodotus\", 870e)"
1010 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:59
1012 "\"Then the blood really flowed, for the two lines were so close that shield "
1013 "struck against shield, and they drove their swords into each other's faces. "
1014 "It was impossible for the weak or cowardly to retreat; man to man they "
1015 "fought like in single combat.\" - Curtius Rufus about the Battle of Issos "
1016 "(\"Histories of Alexander the Great\", III. 11.5)"
1019 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:60
1021 "\"I am Cyrus, who won for the Persians their empire. Therefore do not "
1022 "begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.\" - Cyrus the Great's "
1023 "epitaph (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 69)"
1026 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:61
1028 "\"I am Darius, the great king, king of kings, the king of Persia, the king "
1029 "of countries, \\[…] 23 lands in total.\" - Darius I. (Behistun inscription, "
1033 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:62
1035 "\"Phraortes was captured and brought before me. I cut off his nose, his "
1036 "ears, and his tongue, and I put out one eye, and he was kept in chains at my"
1037 " palace entrance, and all the people saw him. Then I crucified him in "
1038 "Ecbatana; and the men who were his foremost followers \\[…] I flayed and "
1039 "hung out their skins, stuffed with straw.\" - Darius I. (Behistun "
1040 "inscription, column II, 32)"
1043 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:63
1045 "\"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.\" - Democritus "
1049 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:64
1050 msgid "\"It is hard to be governed by one's inferior.\" - Democritus (fragment)"
1053 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:65
1055 "\"Physical strength is only noble in cattle, it is strength of character "
1056 "that is noble in men.\" - Democritus (fragment)"
1059 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:66
1061 "\"It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and "
1062 "treachery.\" - Demosthenes, in one of his many speeches against the rising "
1063 "Phillip II of Macedon (\"Olynthiac II\", 10)"
1066 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:67
1068 "\"Delivery, delivery, delivery.\" - Demosthenes, when asked what were the "
1069 "three most important elements of rhetoric (Cicero, \"De Oratore\", 3.213)"
1072 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:68
1074 "\"The Macedonians first raised an unearthly shout followed by the Persians "
1075 "answering, so that the whole hillside bordering the battlefield echoed back "
1076 "the sound, and that second roar was louder than the Macedonian war cry as "
1077 "five hundred thousand men shouted with one voice.\" - Diodorus Siculus about"
1078 " the Battle of Issos (\"The Library of History\", XVII., sec. 33)"
1081 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:69
1083 "\"Brasidas, taking his stand on the gangway, fought off from there the "
1084 "multitude of Athenians who converged upon him. And at the outset he slew "
1085 "many as they came at him, but after a while, as numerous missiles assailed "
1086 "him, he suffered many wounds on the front of his body.\" - Diodorus Siculus,"
1087 " on a brave Spartan at the Battle of Pylos (\"The Library of History\", "
1091 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:70
1093 "\"Plato had defined man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was "
1094 "applauded. Diogenes \\[of Sinope] plucked a fowl and brought it into the "
1095 "lecture-room with the words: Here is Plato's man. In consequence of which "
1096 "there was added to the definition: having broad nails.\" - Diogenes Laertius"
1097 " (\"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", \"Diogenes\", sec. 40)"
1100 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:71
1102 "\"I am a citizen of the world.\" - Diogenes of Sinope (Diogenes Laertius, "
1103 "\"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers\", \"Diogenes\", sec. 63)"
1106 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:72
1108 "\"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from "
1109 "yours.\" - Diogenes of Sinope (Stobaeus, \"Florilegium\", 51)"
1112 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:73
1114 "\"Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine.\" - Diogenes of Sinope to "
1115 "Alexander the Great, who asked if he could help in in any way (Plutarch, "
1116 "\"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 14)"
1119 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:74
1121 "\"The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself "
1122 "so.\" - Ennius (\"Annales\", fragment 31.493)"
1125 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:75
1127 "\"Stranger, go tell the Spartans that we lie here, obedient to their laws.\""
1128 " - Epitaph at Thermopylae for Leonidas and his men (Herodotus, \"The "
1129 "Histories\", VII. 228)"
1132 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:76
1134 "\"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.\" - Euripides "
1135 "(\"Iphigenia in Tauris\")"
1138 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:77
1140 "\"Brave men are made bolder by ordeals, but cowards achieve nothing.\" - "
1141 "Euripides (\"Iphigenia in Tauris\")"
1144 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:78
1146 "\"Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.\" - "
1147 "Euripides (\"Meleager\")"
1150 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:79
1151 msgid "\"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.\" - Euripides (\"Pirithous\")"
1154 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:80
1156 "\"Return with your shield, or on it.\" - Farewell of Spartan women to their "
1157 "warriors, implying that cowards would throw away their shield in battle to "
1158 "flee (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XVIII. \"Sayings of Spartan Women\", 241f)"
1161 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:81
1163 "\"I came, I saw, I conquered.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar, after routing "
1164 "Pharnaces II of Pontus in the first assault (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", "
1165 "\"Caesar\", sec. 50)"
1168 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:82
1170 "\"Men willingly believe what they wish.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar (\"De Bello "
1171 "Gallico\", III. 18)"
1174 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:83
1176 "\"It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry"
1177 " looking.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Antony\","
1181 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:84
1183 "\"After fighting from noon almost to sunset, with victory doubtful, the "
1184 "Germans, on one side charged the enemy in a compact body, and drove them "
1185 "back; and, when they were put to flight, the archers were surrounded and cut"
1186 " to pieces.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar about the Battle of Alesia (\"De Bello "
1187 "Gallico\", VII. 80)"
1190 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:85
1192 "\"All the centurions of the fourth cohort were slain, and the standard-"
1193 "bearer killed, the standard itself lost, almost all the centurions of the "
1194 "other cohorts either wounded or slain, and among them the chief centurion of"
1195 " the legion, Publius Sextius Baculus, a very valiant man, who was so "
1196 "exhausted by many and severe wounds, that he was already unable to support "
1197 "himself.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar about the Battle of the Sabis (\"De Bello "
1198 "Gallico\", II. 25)"
1201 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:86
1203 "\"But the enemy \\[…] displayed such great courage, that when the front rank"
1204 " had fallen the men behind them stood on them and continue the fight from on"
1205 " top of the corpses; when these were killed the pile of bodies grew higher, "
1206 "while the survivors used the heap as a vantage point for throwing missiles "
1207 "at our men, or catching our spears and throwing them back.\" - Gaius Julius "
1208 "Caesar about the Battle of the Sabis (\"De Bello Gallico\", II. 27)"
1211 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:87
1213 "\"The die is cast.\" - Gaius Julius Caesar, when crossing the Rubicon river "
1214 "with his legion into Italy, a capital offense that led to his civil war "
1215 "against Pompey (Suetonius, \"The Lives of the Twelve Caesars\", 32)"
1218 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:88
1220 "\"I'd rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.\" - Gaius "
1221 "Julius Caesar, when passing through a barbarian village in the Alps "
1222 "(Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Caesar\", sec. 11)"
1225 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:89
1227 "\"Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!\" - Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Plutarch,"
1228 " \"Parallel Lives\", \"Pompey\", sec. 10)"
1231 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:90
1233 "\"If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.\" - "
1234 "Hammurabi (Hammurabi's Code, sec. 196)"
1237 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:91
1239 "\"I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians "
1240 "against Rome.\" - Hannibal Barca (Polybius, \"Histories\", III. 85)"
1243 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:92
1245 "\"Let us now end the anxiety of the Romans, who can't wait for the death of "
1246 "an old man.\" - Hannibal Barca's last words before his suicide, in exile "
1247 "with Flaminius pressuring the local ruler to hand him over (Livius, \"Ab "
1248 "Urbe Condita\", XXXIX. 51)"
1251 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:93
1253 "\"Most inhuman and most arrogant of nations, they \\[the Romans] reckon the "
1254 "world as theirs and subject to their pleasure. With whom we are to be at "
1255 "war, with whom at peace, they think it right that they should determine.\" -"
1256 " Hannibal Barca, addressing his troops (Livius, \"Ab Urbe Condita\", XXI. "
1260 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:94
1262 "\"You must be brave and discard all hopes of anything but victory or "
1263 "death.\" - Hannibal Barca, addressing his troops (Livius, \"Ab Urbe "
1264 "Condita\", XXI. 44)"
1267 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:95
1269 "\"War is the father and king of all things: some he has made gods, and some "
1270 "men; some slaves and some free.\" - Herakleitos (Hippolytus, \"The "
1271 "Refutation of all Heresies\", IX. 4)"
1274 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:96
1276 "\"You could not step twice into the same river.\" - Herakleitos (Plato, "
1277 "\"Cratylos\", 402a)"
1280 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:97
1282 "\"It is better to be envied than to be pitied.\" - Herodotus (\"The "
1283 "Histories\", III. 52)"
1286 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:98
1288 "\"In soft regions are born soft men.\" - Herodotus (\"The Histories\", IX. "
1292 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:99
1294 "\"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no "
1295 "power.\" - Herodotus (\"The Histories\", IX. 16)"
1298 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:100
1300 "\"Although he \\[Xerces] had plenty of troops he had few men.\" - Herodotus "
1301 "(\"The Histories\", VII. 210)"
1304 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:101
1306 "\"The Lacedaemonians \\[Spartans] fought a memorable battle; they made it "
1307 "quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against "
1308 "amateurs.\" - Herodotus (\"The Histories\", VII. 211)"
1311 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:102
1313 "\"Being informed \\[…] that when the Barbarians discharged their arrows they"
1314 " obscured the light of the sun by the multitude of the arrows, he "
1315 "\\[Dienekes] \\[…] said that their guest \\[…] brought them very good news, "
1316 "for if the Medes obscured the light of the sun, the battle against them "
1317 "would be in the shade and not in the sun.\" - Herodotus describing Dienekes,"
1318 " reputedly the bravest Spartan soldier at Thermopylae (Polybius, "
1319 "\"Histories\", VII. 226)"
1322 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:103
1324 "\"The judgement given to Kroisus by each of the two oracles \\[Delphi and "
1325 "Thebes] was the same: If he sent an army against the Persians, he would "
1326 "destroy a great empire.\" - Herodotus, later mentioning that the empire "
1327 "Kroisos destroyed was his own (\"The Histories\", I. 53)"
1330 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:104
1332 "\"He \\[King Darius] asked who the Athenians were, and, being informed, "
1333 "called for his bow, and placing an arrow on the string, shot upward into the"
1334 " sky, saying, as he let fly the shaft: Grant me, Zeus, to revenge myself on "
1335 "the Athenians!\" - Herodotus, narrating how the Athenian support for the "
1336 "Ionian revolt caught the wrath of Darius I., the Persian king (\"The "
1337 "Histories\", V. 105)"
1340 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:105
1342 "\"He \\[King Darius] asked one of his servants every day, when his dinner "
1343 "was spread, three times to repeat to him: Master, remember the Athenians!\" "
1344 "- Herodotus, narrating how the Athenian support for the Ionian revolt lead "
1345 "to the Persian Wars (\"The Histories\", V. 105)"
1348 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:106
1350 "\"Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts "
1351 "into rustic Latium.\" - Horace (\"Epistles\", epistle I., 156-157)"
1354 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:107
1356 "\"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control "
1357 "you.\" - Horace (\"Epistles\", epistle II., 62)"
1360 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:108
1362 "\"It is your concern when your neighbour's wall is on fire.\" - Horace "
1363 "(\"Epistles\", epistle XVIII., 84)"
1366 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:109
1368 "\"It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.\" - Horace (\"Odes\", "
1369 "III., ode II., 13)"
1372 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:110
1373 msgid "\"I am Cyrus, king of the world…\" - Inscription (Cyrus Cylinder)"
1376 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:111
1378 "\"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their "
1379 "sons.\" - Kroisos, king of Lydia (Herodotus, \"The Histories\", I. 87)"
1382 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:112
1384 "\"Marry a good man, and bear good children.\" - Leonidas, to his wife who "
1385 "asked what to do if he died, before he left for Thermopylae (Plutarch, "
1386 "\"Moralia\", XVI. \"Sayings of Spartans\", 225a)"
1389 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:113
1391 "\"Come and get them!\" - Leonidas, to the Persian messenger who demanded "
1392 "that he and his men lay down their arms (Plutarch, \"Moralia\", XVI. "
1393 "\"Sayings of Spartans\", 225c)"
1396 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:114
1398 "\"Some were discovered lying there alive, with thighs and tendons slashed, "
1399 "baring their necks and throats and bidding their conquerors drain the "
1400 "remnant of their blood. Others were found with their heads buried in holes "
1401 "dug in the ground. They had apparently made these pits for themselves.\" - "
1402 "Livius, describing the aftermath of the Battle of Cannae, where Hannibal "
1403 "inflicted the greatest defeat on the Romans in all their history (\"Ab Urbe "
1404 "Condita\", XXII. 51)"
1407 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:115
1409 "\"There lay thousands upon thousands of Romans \\[…]. Here and there amidst "
1410 "the slain rose a gory figure whose wounds had begun to throb with the chill "
1411 "of dawn, and was cut down by his enemies.\" - Livius, describing the "
1412 "aftermath of the Battle of Cannae, where Hannibal inflicted the greatest "
1413 "defeat on the Romans in all their history (\"Ab Urbe Condita\", XXII. 51)"
1416 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:116
1418 "\"A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.\" - "
1419 "Lycurgus of Sparta (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Lycurgus\", sec. 19)"
1422 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:117
1424 "\"Escape, yes, but this time with my hands, not my feet.\" - Marcus Junius "
1425 "Brutus, before committing suicide after losing a battle against Caesar's "
1426 "avengers (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Brutus\", sec. 52)"
1429 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:118
1431 "\"O, the times, O, the customs!\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (\"Against "
1432 "Catiline\", speech I)"
1435 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:119
1437 "\"A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its "
1438 "honor or its safety.\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (\"De Re Publica\", III., 23)"
1441 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:120
1443 "\"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of "
1444 "truth.\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (\"On Duties\", I., 13)"
1447 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:121
1449 "\"No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.\" - Marcus"
1450 " Tullius Cicero (\"On Old Age\", sec. 24)"
1453 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:122
1455 "\"Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.\" - Marcus Tullius "
1456 "Cicero (\"On the Laws\", III., sec. 3)"
1459 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:123
1461 "\"Endless money forms the sinews of war.\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero "
1462 "(\"Philippics\", Philippica V., sec. 5)"
1465 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:124
1467 "\"Laws are silent in time of war.\" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (\"Pro Milone\","
1471 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:125
1473 "\"That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from "
1474 "murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!\" - Marcus "
1475 "Tullius Cicero, condemning Mark Anthony who had not killed him (yet) "
1476 "(\"Philippics\", Philippica II, sec. 5)"
1479 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:126
1481 "\"He did not even stand up to review his fleet when the ships were already "
1482 "at their fighting stations, but lay on his back and gazed up at the sky, "
1483 "never rising to show that he was alive until Marcus Agrippa had routed the "
1484 "enemy.\" - Mark Antony, taunting Augustus who delegated his duties as naval "
1485 "commander (Suetonius, \"Divus Augustus\", sec. 16)"
1488 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:127
1490 "\"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.\" - Menander (\"Lady of "
1491 "Andros\", fragment 50)"
1494 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:128
1495 msgid "\"The man who runs may fight again.\" - Menander (\"Monosticha\")"
1498 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:129
1500 "\"Whom the Gods love dies young.\" - Menander (\"The Double Deceiver\", "
1504 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:130
1505 msgid "\"I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.\" - Menander (fragment 545 K)"
1508 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:131
1510 "\"The greatest glory is won from the greatest dangers. When our fathers "
1511 "faced the Persians their resources could not compare to ours. In fact, they "
1512 "gave up even what they had. Then by wise counsels and daring deeds, not "
1513 "fortune and material advantages, they drove out the invaders and made our "
1514 "city what it is now.\" - Pericles (Thucydides, \"History of the "
1515 "Peloponnesian War\", I. 144.3-4)"
1518 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:132
1520 "\"Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of "
1521 "action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at "
1522 "all.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the "
1523 "first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II."
1527 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:133
1529 "\"We alone do not think that a man ignorant of politics interferes with "
1530 "nothing, we think he is good for nothing.\" - Pericles in his Funeral "
1531 "Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, "
1532 "\"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II. 40.2)"
1535 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:134
1537 "\"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.\" - "
1538 "Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of"
1539 " the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II. 41.5)"
1542 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:135
1544 "\"When you realise the power of Athens, consider it was won by valiant men "
1545 "who knew their duty, had a sense of dishonor in fight and, if their "
1546 "enterprises failed, would rather give their lives than lack in civic "
1547 "virtue.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the "
1548 "first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II."
1552 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:136
1554 "\"To heroes all earth is their tomb, and their virtues are remembered far "
1555 "from home where an epitaph declares them, in an unwritten record of the mind"
1556 " that will outlast any monument.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for "
1557 "Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of "
1558 "the Peloponnesian War\", II. 43.3)"
1561 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:137
1563 "\"Understand that happiness depends on freedom, and freedom depends on "
1564 "courage.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the "
1565 "first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", II."
1569 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:138
1571 "\"The greatest glory for women is to be least talked about by men, whether "
1572 "for good or ill.\" - Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died"
1573 " in the first year of the war (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian "
1577 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:139
1579 "\"Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, time.\" - Pericles, a cautious "
1580 "politician who avoided war (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Pericles\", sec."
1584 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:140
1586 "\"Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it "
1587 "is certainly dangerous to let it go.\" - Pericles, addressing the Athenian "
1588 "assembly after a plague had weakened the city (Thucydides, \"History of the "
1589 "Peloponnesian War\", II. 63.3)"
1592 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:141
1594 "\"War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced "
1595 "man fears its approach in his heart.\" - Pindar (fragment 110)"
1598 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:142
1600 "\"Themistocles robbed his fellow citizens of spear and shield, and degraded "
1601 "the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and the oar.\" - Plato, no friend of "
1602 "the Athenian navy (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Themistocles\", sec. 3)"
1605 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:143
1607 "\"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a "
1608 "nuisance after three days.\" - Plautus (\"The Swaggering Soldier\", Act III,"
1612 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:144
1614 "\"You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is "
1615 "immortal.\" - Plautus (\"Trinummus\", Act II, scene 4, 12)"
1618 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:145
1620 "\"He \\[Alexander] thought nothing invincible for the courageous, and "
1621 "nothing secure for the cowardly.\" - Plutarch (\"Parallel Lives\", "
1622 "\"Alexander\", sec. 58)"
1625 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:146
1627 "\"One \\[…] shot an arrow at him with such accuracy and force that it "
1628 "pierced his breastplate and got stuck in his ribs. \\[…] Alexander recoiled "
1629 "and sank to his knees. \\[…] At last Alexander killed the barbarian. But he "
1630 "received many wounds, at last was struck on the neck with a mace, and leaned"
1631 " against the city wall, his eyes still fixed upon his foes.\" - Plutarch "
1632 "about the Mallian Campaign (\"Parallel Lives\", \"Alexander\", sec. 63)"
1635 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:147
1637 "\"When the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents for him, Caesar burst"
1638 " out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had "
1639 "captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty.\" - Plutarch, who mentions later "
1640 "that Caesar got his money back and had his captors crucified (\"Parallel "
1641 "Lives\", \"Caesar\", sec. 2)"
1644 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:148
1646 "\"They \\[the Romans] want the centurions not so much to be adventurous and "
1647 "daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They "
1648 "do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but "
1649 "men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be "
1650 "ready to die at their posts.\" - Polybius (\"Histories\", VI. 24)"
1653 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:149
1655 "\"The Roman battle line is hard to break, since it allows every man to fight"
1656 " both individually and collectively; so that a formation can fight in any "
1657 "direction, with the maniples nearest to the point of danger wheeling around "
1658 "to face it.\" - Polybius (\"Histories\", XV. 15)"
1661 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:150
1663 "\"The Athenian people are always in the position of a ship without a "
1664 "commander. Fear of the enemy or a storm make the crew be of one mind and "
1665 "obey the helmsman, everything goes well; but if they recover \\[…] they "
1666 "quarrel with each other \\[…], and the result has often been that, after "
1667 "escaping the dangers of the widest seas and the most violent storms, they "
1668 "wreck their ship in harbour and close to shore.\" - Polybius on the Athenian"
1669 " constitution (\"Histories\", VI. 44)"
1672 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:151
1674 "\"Most of the Romans were trampled to death by the enormous weight of the "
1675 "elephants; the rest were shot down in their ranks by the numerous cavalry: "
1676 "and there were only a very few who attempted to save themselves by flight.\""
1677 " - Polybius on the Battle of Bagradas where a Roman army was annihilated "
1678 "during the First Punic War (\"Histories\", I. 34)"
1681 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:152
1683 "\"Hannibal gave the signal for attack; and at the same time sent orders to "
1684 "the troops lying in ambush on the hills to do the same, and thus delivered "
1685 "an assault upon the enemy at every point at once.\" - Polybius on the "
1686 "beginning of a Roman disaster at the Trasymene Lake (\"Histories\", III. 84)"
1689 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:153
1691 "\"In the phalanx, the men cannot turn around singly and defend themselves: "
1692 "this tribune, therefore, charged them \\[from behind] and killed all he "
1693 "could get at; until, unable to resist, they were forced to throw away their "
1694 "shields and flee.\" - Polybius, describing the defeat of Philip V. of "
1695 "Macedon by Flaminius in the Battle of Cynoscephalae (\"Histories\", XVIII. "
1699 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:154
1701 "\"The Roman order on the other hand is flexible: for every Roman, once armed"
1702 " and on the field, is equally well equipped for every place, time, or "
1703 "appearance of the enemy. He is, moreover, quite ready and needs to make no "
1704 "change, whether he is required to fight in the main body, or in a "
1705 "detachment, or in a single maniple, or even by himself.\" - Polybius, "
1706 "explaining how the Romans can defeat the Macedonian phalanx (\"Histories\", "
1710 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:155
1712 "\"Scipio \\[Aeminialus], when he looked upon the city \\[Carthage] as it was"
1713 " utterly perishing and in the last throes of its complete destruction, is "
1714 "said to have shed tears and wept openly for his enemies. And realized that "
1715 "all cities, nations, and authorities must, like men, meet their doom.\" - "
1716 "Polybius, eyewitness to the destruction of Carthage (\"Histories\", XXXVIII."
1720 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:156
1722 "\"One more such victory and the cause is lost!\" - Pyrrhus of Epirus after "
1723 "the Battle of Asculum, in which the Romans lost twice as many men but he "
1724 "lost a greater share of his armed forces (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", "
1725 "\"Pyrrhus\", sec. 21)"
1728 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:157
1730 "\"None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.\" - "
1731 "Pythagoras (Stobaeus, \"Florilegium\", 18)"
1734 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:158
1736 "\"Do not say few things in many words, but many things in few words.\" - "
1737 "Pythagoras (Stobaeus, \"Florilegium\", 24)"
1740 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:159
1742 "\"Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent.\" - Pythagoras "
1743 "(Stobaeus, \"Florilegium\", 24)"
1746 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:160
1748 "\"Unity strengthens even small states, while discord undermines the "
1749 "mightiest empires.\" - Sallust (\"The Jugurthine War\", 10.6)"
1752 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:161
1754 "\"Ungrateful fatherland, you will not even have my bones!\" - Scipio "
1755 "Africanus in his epitaph, after he who defeated Hannibal was repeatedly "
1756 "accused of crimes by the Roman Senate (Valerius Maximus, \"Nine books on "
1757 "memorable deeds and sayings\", 5.3.2)"
1760 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:162
1762 "\"Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.\" - Scipio "
1763 "Africanus, replying to Hannibal's offer of peace terms before the Battle of "
1764 "Zama (Livius, \"Ab Urbe Condita\", XXX. 31)"
1767 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:163
1769 "\"But tactical science is only one part of generalship. A general must be "
1770 "capable of equipping his forces and providing for his men. He must also be "
1771 "inventive, hardworking, and watchful, bullheaded and brilliant, friendly and"
1772 " fierce, straightforward and subtle.\" - Socrates (Xenophon, "
1773 "\"Memorabilia\", 3.1.6)"
1776 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:164
1778 "\"It is necessary to know the strength of the city and of the enemy, so "
1779 "that, if the city is stronger, one may recommend her to go to war, but if "
1780 "weaker than the enemy, may persuade her to beware.\" - Socrates (Xenophon, "
1781 "\"Memorabilia\", 3.6.9)"
1784 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:165
1786 "\"The unexamined life is not worth living.\" - Socrates, in his defense when"
1787 " trialled for corrupting the youth and not worshipping the proper gods (he "
1788 "later drank hemlock after the death sentence) - Plato (\"Apology\", 38a)"
1791 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:166
1793 "\"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you "
1794 "to live. Which is better God only knows.\" - Socrates, in his defense when "
1795 "trialled for corrupting the youth and not worshipping the proper gods (he "
1796 "later drank hemlock after the death sentence) - Plato (\"Apology\", 42a)"
1799 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:167
1801 "\"Walls and ships are nothing without men living together inside them.\" - "
1802 "Sophocles (\"Oedipus Rex\")"
1805 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:168
1807 "\"We accepted an empire that was offered to us and refused to give it up "
1808 "under the pressure of three of the strongest motives: fear, honor and "
1809 "interest. It was not we who set the example, for it has always been the law "
1810 "that the weak should be subject to the strong.\" - Speech of an Athenian "
1811 "embassy in Sparta (Thucydides, \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", I. "
1815 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:169
1817 "\"He could boast that he found a city of brick and left it a city of "
1818 "marble.\" - Suetonius, commenting on the many building projects of Augustus "
1819 "in Rome (\"Divus Augustus\", sec 38)"
1822 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:170
1823 msgid "\"Moderation in all things.\" - Terence (\"The Girl from Andros\", 61)"
1826 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:171
1828 "\"Fortune favors the bold.\" - Terence in a play about a great Athenian "
1829 "admiral (\"Phormio\", 203)"
1832 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:172
1834 "\"I do not know how to tune the lyre or play the harp, but I do know how to "
1835 "raise a city that was small and unimportant to glory and greatness.\" - "
1836 "Themistocles, defending his lack of cultural sophistication (Plutarch, "
1837 "\"Parallel Lives\", \"Themistocles\", sec. 2)"
1840 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:173
1842 "\"Strike, if you will, but listen.\" - Themistocles, in a heated discussion "
1843 "with the Spartan fleet commander who threatened to beat him with his staff, "
1844 "before the Battle of Salamis (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", "
1845 "\"Themistocles\", sec. 11)"
1848 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:174
1850 "\"The Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your "
1851 "mother commands me, and you command your mother.\" - Themistocles, jokingly "
1852 "to his infant son (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Themistocles\", sec. 18)"
1855 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:175
1857 "\"So little pains does the mob take in finding out the truth, accepting "
1858 "readily the first story at hand.\" - Thucydides (\"History of the "
1859 "Peloponnesian War\", I. 21.3)"
1862 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:176
1864 "\"The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this caused in "
1865 "Sparta, made war inevitable.\" - Thucydides (\"History of the Peloponnesian "
1869 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:177
1871 "\"War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.\" - Thucydides (\"History"
1872 " of the Peloponnesian War\", I. 83.2)"
1875 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:178
1877 "\"It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat "
1878 "them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.\" - Thucydides "
1879 "(\"History of the Peloponnesian War\", III. 39.5)"
1882 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:179
1884 "\"This was the greatest action that happened in all this war, and all others"
1885 " that we have heard of amongst the Greeks, being to the victors most "
1886 "glorious and most calamitous to the vanquished. For they were utterly and at"
1887 " all points defeated, and their sufferings were many. Army and fleet and all"
1888 " they ever had perished, nothing was saved and few of so many ever returned "
1889 "home. Thus ended the Sicilian expedition.\" - Thucydides (\"History of the "
1890 "Peloponnesian War\", VII. 87.6-7)"
1893 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:180
1895 "\"As the world goes, justice is only a matter between equals, while the "
1896 "strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.\" - Thucydides, "
1897 "describing Athenians addressing the defeated Melians who are unwilling to "
1898 "surrender (\"History of the Peloponnesian War\", V. 89.1)"
1901 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:181
1903 "\"When the Lacedaemonians were no longer able to run after them, the "
1904 "skirmishers \\[…] all charged them at once, casting stones, arrows, and "
1905 "darts to the closest man at hand.\" - Thucydides, describing the Spartan "
1906 "disaster at the Battle of Sphacteria (\"History of the Peloponnesian War\", "
1910 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:182
1912 "\"The soldiers fight and die to support others in wealth and luxury and they"
1913 " are called masters of the world without owning a single piece of farmland "
1914 "of their own.\" - Tiberius Gracchus, advocating for land reform to the "
1915 "benefit of homeless and unemployed veterans whose lands had often been "
1916 "bought up why they were on campaign (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", "
1917 "\"Tiberius Gracchus\", sec. 9)"
1920 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:183
1922 "\"The wild beasts of Italy have their caves to retire to, but the brave "
1923 "veterans who spilled their blood in her cause have nothing left but air and "
1924 "light. They wander around homeless with their wives and children.\" - "
1925 "Tiberius Gracchus, advocating for land reform to the benefit of homeless and"
1926 " unemployed veterans whose lands had often been bought up why they were on "
1927 "campaign (Plutarch, \"Parallel Lives\", \"Tiberius Gracchus\", sec. 9)"
1930 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:184
1932 "\"Do not trust the horse, Trojans! I fear the Greeks even when they bring "
1933 "gifts.\" - Virgil (\"Aeneid\", II. 48-49)"
1936 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:185
1937 msgid "\"Prepared for either alternative.\" - Virgil (\"Aeneid\", II. 61)"
1940 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:186
1942 "\"Homer and Hesiod ascribed to their Gods all things that are a disgrace "
1943 "among mortals: stealing, adultery, deceiving one another.\" - Xenophanes "
1947 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:187
1949 "\"If oxen and horses and lions had hands, and could paint, and produce works"
1950 " of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and"
1951 " oxen like oxen, and make their God's bodies each in their own image.\" - "
1952 "Xenophanes (fragment 15)"
1955 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:188
1957 "\"The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed, the Thracians say "
1958 "theirs have blue eyes and red hair.\" - Xenophanes (fragment 16)"
1961 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:189
1963 "\"These are the right questions to ask, in winter around the fire \\[…]: Who"
1964 " are you, friend? What is your land? And how old were you when the Medes "
1965 "\\[Persians] came?\" - Xenophanes, likely referring to a punitive expedition"
1966 " against Greek cities in Ionia (fragment 17)"
1969 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:190
1971 "\"A prudent commander will never take risks unnecessarily, except when it is"
1972 " clear beforehand that he will have the advantage.\" - Xenophon (\"The "
1973 "Cavalry General\", 4.13)"
1976 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:191
1978 "\"Attack the enemy where he is weakest, even if that is a long way off, "
1979 "since hard work is less dangerous than a struggle against superior forces.\""
1980 " - Xenophon (\"The Cavalry General\", sec. 4.14)"
1983 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:192
1985 "\"He should be inventive, ready to exploit all circumstances, to make a "
1986 "small force appear large and a large one small, to appear absent when close "
1987 "at hand, and within striking distance when a long way off.\" - Xenophon "
1988 "(\"The Cavalry General\", sec. 5)"
1991 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:193
1993 "\"People are glad to obey the man whom they believe to be wiser than "
1994 "themselves in pursuing their interests.\" - Xenophon (\"The Education of "
1998 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:194
2000 "\"In his campaigns during summer the general must show that he can endure "
2001 "the sun better than the soldiers, in winter he must show he can endure cold "
2002 "better; and throughout all difficulties that he can endure hardships better."
2003 " This will help to make him loved by his men.\" - Xenophon (\"The Education "
2004 "of Cyrus\", 1.6.25)"
2007 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:195
2009 "\"Battles are decided more by the morale of men than their physical "
2010 "strength.\" - Xenophon (\"The Education of Cyrus\", 3.3.20)"
2013 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:196
2015 "\"Let's not give them enough time to arrange a defense, or to even recognise"
2016 " that we are human beings! We've got to appear to them like an "
2017 "uncontrollable nightmare of shields, swords, battle-axes and spears!\" - "
2018 "Xenophon (\"The Education of Cyrus\", 4.2.22)"
2021 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:197
2023 "\"I suppose you understand, men, that pursuing, dealing blows and death, "
2024 "plunder, fame, freedom, power - all these are prizes for the winners; the "
2025 "cowardly, of course, suffer the reverse.\" - Xenophon (\"The Education of "
2029 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:198
2031 "\"The man who wants that must be scheming and cunning, wily and deceitful, a"
2032 " thief and a robber, overreaching the enemy at every point.\" - Xenophon on "
2033 "how best to gain advantage over the enemy (\"The Education of Cyrus\", "
2037 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:199
2039 "\"My men have turned into women, and my women into men!\" - Xerxes, watching"
2040 " Artemisia ram a ship while most of his fleet suffered the reverse, not "
2041 "knowing that the sunk vessel was his own (Herodotus, \"The Histories\", "
2045 #: gui/text/quotes.txt:200
2047 "\"For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.\" - Zoroaster, founder of "
2048 "the Zoroastrian religion (\"Ahunuvaiti Gatha\", yasna 30.9)"