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- Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
- A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
- In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Decorum
- Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
- Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
- Endless money forms the sinews of war.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Philippics
- Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
- Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
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