"In our own time the whole of Greece……" — Polybius
"In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew."
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13 Quotes by Polybius
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From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire…
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If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
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Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be…
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Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
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For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice,…
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The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is…
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On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.
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A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
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That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary…
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