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• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...
• Superior training and superior weaponry have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall military strength.
  Well-trained, well-equipped troops can stand up to many more times their lesser brethren than linear arithmetic would seem to indicate....
• Little is done when many command.
• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.
  If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results....
• Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees?
  ... Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us....
• The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than fiction.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it ou
  when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost....
• Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pompey...
• Those cave paintings are wonderful, but like everything we know, they are not too wonderful to be true.
  It is their reality that gives them wonder, and while there will never come a time when some of us will not wish for more than we can have, the happiest of us will wait confidently for other tangible finds....