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„Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.“
„It was a kind of Cadmean victory.“
„It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.“
„From Peloponnesos (came) the Lakedaimonians…, the Corinthians…, the Sikyonians…, the Epidaurians…, the Troiezenians… All these (groups)… belong to the Dorian and Macedonian nation (and) had emigrated last from Erineus and Pindos and Dryopis.“
„Force has no place where there is need of skill.“
„Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably.“
„Call no man happy till he dies.“
„Before battle was joined they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun with the mass of arrows. Dianeces, so the story goes, was so dismissive of the Persian numbers that he calmly replied, “All to the good, my friend from Trachis. If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight.”“
„Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.“
„It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.“
„Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.“
„When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.“
„The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.“
„My men have turned into women and my women into men!“
„I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.“
„From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.“
„Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.“
„But Alexander (I of Macedon), proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek; so he contended in the furlong race and ran a dead heat for first place.“
„I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.“
„Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know.“
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