Quotable

[Ariovistus Maximus]

Hey guys! Here is a thread for your favorite quotes in history.



A couple of mine:


"If politics is a science comparable to medicine, then history is it's pathology."
-Niccolo Machiavelli-

The more history I learn, the more I come to realize it's value. History is a lense through which we see the present, and provides scope and perspective for the future.

"If the Persians blot out the sky with their arrows, then we shall fight in the shade."
-Diomedes-

I just love the attitude.

[KrooK]

"Necessitas in loco, spes in virtute, salus in victoria" (sorry for potencial grammar mistakes) - Żółkiewski

[Ariovistus Maximus]

If I may be so bold, I would request that you provide a translation.

I got some of that but I can't quite figure all of it.

[Hooahguy]

"a room without books is like a body without a soul."
-Cicero

"wise men speak when they have something to say; fools when they have to say something."
-Plato
this quote is probably why im generally a quiet person.

and there are many more.
i have about 250 quotes on my wall.

[KrooK]

It will be something like

"Necessity into place, hope into courage, faith into victory."

[Ariovistus Maximus]

"When the people is ready the master will appear."

As a history buff of sorts, I've seen this many times and it's an important concept in history. It is not the leader of the people that makes them do one thing or another, but the people themselves who have prepared for such a leader, whether good or bad.

"An undisciplined rabble is no more an army than a pile of bricks is a house."