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• Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. -- Pyrrhu
• Another victory like that and we are done for: Pyrrhu
• Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Pyrrhu...
• When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said
  "Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone....
• I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemie
  for the hardest victort is the victory over self. Aristotle...
• Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemie
  but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends....
• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pa
  which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him....
• Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance
  or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions....
• After the Children of Israel had wandered for thirty-nine years in the wilderness, Ferdinand Feghoot arrived to make sure that they would finally find and enter the Promised Land.
  With him, he brought his favorite robot, faithful old Yewtoo Artoo, to carry his gear and do assorted camp chores....