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+An adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.
+- Vegetius
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+What can a soldier do who charges when out of breath?
+- Vegetius
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+Few men are born brave, many become so through training and force of discipline.
+- Vegetius
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+Valour is superior to numbers.
+- Vegetius
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+An ambuscade, if discovered and promptly surrounded, will repay the intended mischief with interest
+- Vegetius
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+A general is not easily overcome who can form a true judgement of his own and the enemy's forces.
+- Vegetius
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+Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum
+Let him who desires peace prepare for war
+- Vegetius
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+We die today not only for our friends and family but for our gods and for our forefathers and men before them so pray to them to make us victorious
+- Vegetius
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+Let all be present and expect the palm, the prize of victory.
+- Virgil
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+So ends the bloody business of the day.
+- Homer
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+Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his strength.
+- Homer
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+Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than war.
+- Homer
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+He serves me most, who serves his country best.
+- Homer
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+The blade itself incites to violence
+- Homer
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+To those that flee comes neither power nor glory
+- Homer
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+Ye gods, what dastards would our host command? Swept to the war, the lumber of the land.
+- Homer
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+Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
+- Homer
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+A glorious death is his who for his country falls.
+- Homer
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+Conquered, we conquer
+- Plautus
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+Ah, yes, mere infantry
+poor beggars...
+- Plautus
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+The valiant profit more their country than the finest, cleverest speakers
+- Plautus
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+Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
+- Sophocles
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+It is the brave man's part to live with glory, or with glory die.
+- Sophocles
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+The outcome corresponds less to expectations in war than in any other case whatsoever.
+- Livy
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+Vae victus.
+Woe to the vanquished.
+- Livy
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+To a good general luck is important.
+- Livy
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+All warfare is based on deception.
+- Sun Tzu
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+In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.
+- Sun Tzu
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+Generally management of the many is the same as generally management of the few, it's a matter of organization.
+- Sun Tzu
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+He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.
+- Sun Tzu
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+In peace, sons bury their fathers, in war, fathers bury their sons.
+- Herodotus
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+Far better is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
+- Herodotus
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+After the war is over, make alliances
+- Greek proverb
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+Fortis cadere, cedere non potest.
+A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.
+- Latin proverb
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+Victory loves prudence.
+- Latin proverb
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+Flet victus, victor interiit.
+The conquered mourns, the conqueror is undone.
+- Latin proverb
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+Timidi mater non flet.
+A coward's mother does not weep.
+- Latin proverb
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+Arms keep peace
+- Latin proverb
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+To blunder twice is not allowed in war
+- Latin proverb
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+The proper arts of a general are judgement and prudence.
+- Tacitus
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+Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
+- Tacitus
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+A bad peace is even worse than a war
+- Tacitus
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+Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors
+- Tacitus
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+The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
+- Tacitus
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+Valour is the contempt of death and pain.
+- Tacitus
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+They make a solitude and call it peace.
+- Tacitus
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+Every care must be taken that our auxiliaries, being stronger than our citizens, may not grow too much for them and become savage beasts.
+- Plato
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+Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
+- Plato
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+The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying
+- Plato
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+I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.
+- Aeschylus
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+A people's voice is dangerous when charged with wrath.
+- Aeschylus
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+In war we must always leave room for strokes of fortune, and accidents that cannot be foreseen.
+- Polybius
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+A good general not only sees the way to victory, he also knows when victory is impossible.
+- Polybius
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+Bella detesta matribus.
+Wars are the dread of mothers.
+- Horace
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+Quae caret ora cruore nostro?
+What coast knows not our blood?
+- Horace
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+Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
+It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
+- Horace
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+Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it
+- Horace
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+A wise man in times of peace prepares for war.
+- Horace
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+A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.
+- Thucydides
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+The strong did what they could, and the weak suffered what they must.
+- Thucydides
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+Self-control is the chief element in self respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
+- Thucydides
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+The true contempt of an invader is shown by deeds of valour in the field.
+- Hermocrates of Syracuse
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+They have an abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly.
+- Hermocrates of Syracuse
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+When there is mutual fear, men think twice before they make aggression upon one another.
+- Hermocrates
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+Nobody is driven in to war by ignorance, and no one who thinks he will gain anything from it is deterred by fear.
+- Hermocrates
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+Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his strength.
+- Euripides
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+The god of war hates those who hesitate.
+- Euripides
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+Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
+- Euripides
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+A large army is always disorderly.
+- Euripides
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+Fas est et ab hoste doceri.
+It is right to learn, even from the enemy.
+- Ovid
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+The gods favour the bold.
+- Ovid
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+Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home.
+- Cicero
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+The sinews of war are infinite money.
+- Cicero
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+War is not so much a matter of weapons, as of money.
+- Cicero
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+Silent enim leges inter arma
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+Laws are silent in times of war
+- Cicero
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+War, as the saying goes, is full of false alarms.
+- Aristotle
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+We make war that we may live in peace.
+- Aristotle
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+The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something
+- Aristotle
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+It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.
+- Publilius Syrus
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+Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many
+- Publilius Syrus
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+We should provide in peace what we need in war
+- Publilius Syrus
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+The cruelty of war makes for peace.
+- Publilius Syrus
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+Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
+- Publilius Syrus
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+He is best secure from dangers who is on his guard even when he seems safe.
+- Publilius Syrus
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+In war important events result from trivial causes.
+- Gaius Julius Caesar
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+War gives the right of the conquerors to impose any conditions they please upon the vanquished.
+- Gaius Julius Caesar
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+Veni, vidi, vici.
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+I came, I saw, I conquered.
+- Gaius Julius Caesar
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+Alea iacta est
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+The die is cast
+- Gaius Julius Caesar
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+If you must break the law, do it to seize power, in all other cases observe it.
+- Gaius Julius Caesar
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+Men of Athens, there is not much time for exhortation, but to the brave a few words are as good as many.
+- Hippocrates
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+War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
+- Hippocrates
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+If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favourable.
+- Seneca
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+The fortunes of war are always doubtful
+- Seneca
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+Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
+- Seneca
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+Against danger it pays to be prepared.
+- Aesop
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+Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
+- Alcaeus
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+A dead enemy always smells good.
+- Aulus Vitellius
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+Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.
+- Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, III, 1
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+He conquers who endures.
+- Persius
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+Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
+- Plutarch
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+I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.
+- Pericles
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+When one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of stronger morale, then their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them.
+- Xenophon
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+Bella, horida bella!
+Wars, horrid wars!
+- Virgil
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+Willing obedience always beats forced obedience
+- Xenophon
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+Soldiers do not like being under the command of one who is not of noble birth.
+- Onosander
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+To an imperial city nothing is inconsistent which is expedient.
+- Euphemus of Athens
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+In the moment of action remember the value of silence and order.
+- Phormio of Athens
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+If a man does not strike first, he will be first struck.
+- Athenogoras of Syracuse
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+Fortes fortuna adiuvat.
+Fortune favours the brave.
+- Terence
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+In war we must be speedy.
+- Silius Italicus
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+Learn to obey before you command.
+- Solon of Athens
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+Varus, give me back my legions.
+- Augustus Caesar: After the defeat and annihilation of Varus' column in Teutoberg Forest
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+The Spartans do not ask how many enemies but where they are.
+- Agis II of Sparta
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+Come home with this shield, or upon it.
+- A Spartan mother equips her son
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+Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.
+- Tibullus
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+A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; and the weak cannot contend with the strong
+- Mencius
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+A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house
+- Socrates
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+To brave men, the prizes that war offers are liberty and fame
+- Lycurgus of Sparta
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+War spares not the brave but the cowardly
+- Anacreon
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+It is the noblest and safest thing for a great army to be visibly animated by one spirit
+- Archidamus of Sparta
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+Ah! The generals! They are numerous but not good for much!
+- Aristophanes
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+Let them hate us as long as they fear us
+- Caligula
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+To lead untrained people to war is to throw them away
+- Confucius
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+Only the brave enjoy noble and glorious deaths
+- Dionysius
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+The walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots
+- Ezekiel, XXVI, 10
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+Alta sedent civilis vulnera dextrae
+Deep are the wounds that civil strife inflicts
+- Lucan
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+It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another
+- Lucretius
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+Hannibal knew how to gain a victory, but not how to use it
+- Maharbal
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+The man who runs away will fight again
+- Menander
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+An alliance with the powerful is never to be trusted
+- Phaedrus
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+War is sweet to those who have never experienced it
+- Pindar
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+How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle!
+- II Samuel, I, 25
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+March divided and fight concentrated
+- Military maxim
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+Divide and conquer
+- Military maxim
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+Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear
+-Marcus Aurelius