Loading screen quotes
I've usually enjoyed the loading screen quotes in TW games but often the quotes are from various historical epochs. There is a wealth of quotes from closer to the Rome 2 era so if everyone has some favorite quotes share them here. Many of the most well known quotes are already in many mods or already included by CA but I especially enjoy the longer quotes that actually make the loading screen feel like it is almost going by too slowly.
"History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.""If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself."
Heroditus
"If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength"
Tu Mu
"If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy"
Tu Mu
Tu Mu
“You pick out the big men! I’ll make them brave!”
Pyrrhus Molossian king of Epirus, to his recruiters.Quoted in Frontinus “Stratagems” ca 90 AD
."The fear of war is worse than war itself."
Seneca
"He who flees will fight again ....."
Tertullian
"Let our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them."
Greek proverb
"He who has command of the sea has command of everything."
Themistocles
"Weapons are baleful instruments, strife is antagonistic to virtue, a military commander is the negation of civil order!"
Wei Liao Tzu
"Men who think that their officer recognizes them are keener to be seen doing something honorable and more desirous of avoiding disgrace."
Xenophon
"If the enemy's dispositions are visible, we can make for him in one body; whereas, our own dispositions being kept secret, the enemy will be obliged to divide his forces in order to guard against attack from every quarter."
Chang Yu
"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can."
Julius Caesar
"It is not those well fed long hair men I fear but the pale and hungry looking."
Julius Caesar
"Hug the Shore, let others try the deep."
Virgil
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure then human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato, The Republic
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Aristotle, Rhetoric
"What splendid women's quarters."
When being drawn attention to the solid city walls with exceptionally strong construction- King Agesilaus attribution
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Originally Posted by Arcani 4 Ever
