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I have begun working on a list of quotes for the loading screens. So far there are about 20 on it. Relivent Quotes from this time period seem to be extremely hard to find. Does anyone want to help with this?
(or more horribly for myself has anyone already done this? :embarassed: )
Great! I'd post some, but I have to go now.
Ill help here are some I got on this site http://mr_sedivy.tripod.com/quotes5.html
Erasmus c.1469 - 1536
"In regione caecorum rex est luscus."
(In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.)
Cesare Borgia 1476 - 1507
Motto inscribed on his sword:
"Aut Caesar, aut nihil"
(Caesar or nothing
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
"Life well spent is long."
"In her (Nature's) inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
"Every man at three years old is half his height."
Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 - 1527
1513 - From The Prince:
"Anyone who determines to act in all circumstances the part of a good man must come to ruin among so many who are not good. Hence, if a prince wishes to maintain himself, he must learn how not to be good, and to use that ability or not as is required."
"The experience of our times shows that the princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises and who have known how to addle the brains of men with their craft."
If men were all good, this advice would not be good, but since men are wicked and do not keep their promises to you, you likewise do not have to keep your promises to them."
"So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil."
"Men should either be treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injures - for heavy ones they cannot."
"It is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved, if he is to fail in one of the two."
"The prince must be a fox, therefore, to recognize the traps and a lion to frighten the wolves."
Cardinal Wolsey c.1475 - 1530
"Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs."
Martin Luther 1483 - 1546
April 18, 1521 - Speech at the Diet of Worms
"Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen." (attributed)
1529
"Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein gute Wehr und Waffen." (A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.)
"Who loves not woman, wine, and song remains a fool his whole life long." (attributed)
1566
"For, where God built a church, there the devil would also build a chapel ... In such sort is the devil always God's ape."
Emperor Charles V
1500 - 1558
"To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German."
St. Ignatius Loyola 1491 - 1556
1548 - Prayer for Generosity:
"Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:
To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil and not to seek for rest;
To labor and not to ask for any reward
Save that of knowing that we do Thy will."
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Henri IV 1553 - 1610
"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he is unable to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
I also made a list of possibly usefull quotes but I am not sure how many pages it would take up most of them would probably not be used but I have maybe 200 of them so you probably will get something out of them.
Here's my absolute favorite quote from the Medieval period.
"Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius!"
"Slay them all! God will know his own!"
-Arnold Amaury at the burning of Beziers, on July 22, 1209, when asked for orders on how his knights were to distinguish his own soldiers from the "heretic" defenders of Beziers.
Who cares slay them all!
anonymous 2004
Great quotes all!
I say we should translate them all before implementing. I don't want any Latin quotes or the player will feel like he/she is playing RTW all over again.
"He who sheds his blood with me on this day shall be my Brother." -Henry V at the battle of Agincourt
Good stuff. I have added the ones that I didn't have to the list. Its know at about 30 (I already had most of Saranalos quotes, damn)
Silver Rusher: Ok then I'll translate all of the latin quotes into English.
Don't include my quote whatever you do, I pulled it out of my rectum.... :embarassed: