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For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

~Polybius

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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

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Nationality: Greek

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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