HELP! Great Quotations Thread
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HELP! Great Quotations Thread
I have started this thread to try and solicit some more quotations which Pocus might be able to use in the game. Please submit your own suggestion by replying to this post with a message of the following format, as can be seen in the following example.
Some tools to help you locate original text and provide the translation:
Strictly adhering to formatting would greatly help copy/pasting into a spreadsheet for the game to use.
Quotation: The original words spoken
Translation: Translation into English
Person: The name of the person who said these words
Date: Date of the quotation or the lifespan of the person who made it
Work: The location in the text where the quotation may be found
Link: To facilitate further research, provide a link for further reading
Some tools to help you locate original text and provide the translation:
Strictly adhering to formatting would greatly help copy/pasting into a spreadsheet for the game to use.
Quotation: The original words spoken
Translation: Translation into English
Person: The name of the person who said these words
Date: Date of the quotation or the lifespan of the person who made it
Work: The location in the text where the quotation may be found
Link: To facilitate further research, provide a link for further reading
Last edited by uneducated on Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:09 pm, edited 5 times in total.
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Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
τετραχῶς αἱ φαντασίαι γίνονται ἡμῖν: ἢ γὰρ ἔστι τινὰ καὶ οὕτως φαίνεται ἢ οὐκ ὄντα οὐδὲ φαίνεται ὅτι ἔστιν ἢ ἔστι καὶ οὐ φαίνεται ἢ οὐκ ἔστι καὶ φαίνεται.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
Epictetus
c. 55 A.D.
Discourses, Book 1, Chapter 27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
Epictetus
c. 55 A.D.
Discourses, Book 1, Chapter 27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus
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Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam.
I shall either find a way or make one.
Hannibal
c. 218 B.C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inveniam_viam
I shall either find a way or make one.
Hannibal
c. 218 B.C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inveniam_viam
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Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
Numquam est fidelis cum potente societas
An alliance with the powerful is never to be trusted.
Plato
428-327 B.C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_%28dialogue%29
An alliance with the powerful is never to be trusted.
Plato
428-327 B.C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_%28dialogue%29
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Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
"Audentes fortuna iuvat"
(Good luck favours the braves)
Virgilius
Aeneid, X, 284
http://www.pievedirevigozzo.org/07latin ... pagA06.htm
(Good luck favours the braves)
Virgilius
Aeneid, X, 284
http://www.pievedirevigozzo.org/07latin ... pagA06.htm
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"Audentis fortuna iuvat"
- Virgilius
(Good luck favours the brave)
- Virgilius
(Good luck favours the brave)
Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
As only one text is displayed during loading, if you want extra quotations, then provide 3 per authors, so we can put one per line, but 3 at once.
I have already a few spares that I'll add in the future.
Also, historical tidbits, if fun or weird are always welcome. Who knows, it can even make a new feature for the highlighted nation!
I have already a few spares that I'll add in the future.
Also, historical tidbits, if fun or weird are always welcome. Who knows, it can even make a new feature for the highlighted nation!
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Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!
Emperor Augustus
c. 9 A.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... urg_Forest
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!
Emperor Augustus
c. 9 A.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... urg_Forest
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Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.
Hannibal
217 B.C.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannibal
Hannibal
217 B.C.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannibal
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Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent. (Latin, not original language)
Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
Hannibal
c. 183 B.C.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannibal
Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
Hannibal
c. 183 B.C.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannibal
Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
quod ad me attinet, et humanae infirmitatis memini et vim Fortunae reputo et omnia quaecumque agimus subiecta esse mille casibus scio
So far as I am concerned, I am mindful of human weakness, and I reflect upon the might of Fortune and know that everything that we do is exposed to a thousand chances
Scipio
202 B.C
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus
So far as I am concerned, I am mindful of human weakness, and I reflect upon the might of Fortune and know that everything that we do is exposed to a thousand chances
Scipio
202 B.C
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus
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Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
Bit lazy, but this site probably has all the quotes you would ever need:
https://totalwar.fandom.com/wiki/Loadin ... Total_War)
RTW is basically entirely to blame for me quoting ancient wisdom at relatives.
https://totalwar.fandom.com/wiki/Loadin ... Total_War)
RTW is basically entirely to blame for me quoting ancient wisdom at relatives.
Re: HELP! Great Quotations Thread
‘ἐγὼ μὲν ἐβουλόμην παρὰ τούτοις εἶναι μᾶλλον πρῶτος ἢ παρὰῬωμαίοις δεύτερος.’
Inter hos primus libentius sim, quam Roma secundus.
I would prefer to be the first in a small Iberian village than the second in Rome
Gaius Julius Caesar.
100-44 B.C.
Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Caesar (11.2).
46-120 AD
Link: http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:c ... -eng1:11.2
Inter hos primus libentius sim, quam Roma secundus.
I would prefer to be the first in a small Iberian village than the second in Rome
Gaius Julius Caesar.
100-44 B.C.
Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Caesar (11.2).
46-120 AD
Link: http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:c ... -eng1:11.2