Livy

Livy (c. 59 BCE - 17 CE)

"There is a magnetic power in evil; like draws toward like."

• The History of Rome (Book 1, section 46) by Livy, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. New York: Penguin Classics, 2002.

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey Monmouth (flourished c. 12th century)

"Whoever tries to steal from another the things which are that other's may justly lose to the other whom he is attacking the things which belong to him personally."

• Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain (ix.17), completed in 1136 CE, translated from Latin into English by Lewis Thorpe (Penguin Classics, 1966).

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Xenophon

Xenophon (lived approximately 420-350 BCE)

"If you want to survive, do your best to win, because it is winners who kill and the losers who die; and if you want to get rich, do your best to conquer, because victors not only keep their own belongings, but also take what belongs to the losers."

•  Anabasis Kyrou (Upcountry March of Cyrus, Book III, section 2) by Xenophon and translated by Robin Waterfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

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Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

"Hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined."

• History of the Peloponnesian War (Book V, section 103) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"The person who is harmonious amid the hostile,
peaceful amid the violent,
free from grasping amid the greedy,
that one I call superior."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 26), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004. 

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General Curtis E. LeMay

General Curtis LeMay (c. 1906-1990)

"The best way to lead a mission was to stand between the pilot and co-pilot. You got a good view there, and had no immediate manual task - nothing to do in the aircraft you were flying in - nothing to do except control the entire formation."

• Mission with LeMay: My Story, by Curtis LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor (Doubleday & Company, 1965).  

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (sayings recorded between the 6th and 3rd centuries BCE)

"If the enemy opens a door,
     Rush in.
     Seize what he holds dear,
     And secretly contrive
     An encounter."

• Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Chapter Eleven), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics edition, 2009).

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