QuoteQuest“Do what you want, but be prepared in that case to be ruled rather than to rule others... Soft countries breed soft men. For it is not possible for the same land to bear both wonderful fruits and men who are good at war.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Cyrus the Great
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Great, Cyrus the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cyrus the Great. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great
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