“전쟁을 하는 한 그들의 권력은 유지되었지만 제국을 이룩한 후에는 멸망했는데, 평화의 기술에 대해 아무것도 몰랐고 전쟁보다 더 높은 직업에 종사한 적이 없었기 때문입니다.
“And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.”