Greek - Historian | 203 BC - 120 BC
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
Polybius
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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
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