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“And Cyrus, they say, observed: 'How much trouble you have at your dinner, grandfather, if you have to reach out your hands to all these dishes and taste all these different kinds of food!' 'Why so?' said Astyages. 'Really now, don't you think this dinner much finer than your Persian dinners?' 'No, grandfather,' Cyrus replied to this; 'but the road to satiety is much more simple and direct in our country than with you; for bread and meat take us there; but you, though you make for the same goal as we, go wandering through many a maze, up and down, and only arrive at last at the point that we long since have reached.”

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Book:Cyropaedia, Volume 1, books 1-4
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“. . . no speech of admonition can be so fine that it will all at once make those who hear it good men if they are not good already; it would surely not make archers good if they had not had previous practice in shooting; neither would it make lancers good, nor horsemen; it cannot even make men able to endure bodily labour, unless they have been trained to it before.”

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Book:Cyropaedia, Volume 1, books 1-4
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“The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world”

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Book:Pearls Of Eternity
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“Eli abruptly stands. His chair rocks, then hits the floor. “It means Mom’s mental stability was more fragile than we thought in those last few months.” His hand hammers the screen door as he leaves and the door comes back and slams into the wood. I glance at the bylaws. Olivia was a lot of things toward the end and one of them was lucid. Eli’s hiding something, and when I peer over at Cyrus, the pensive stare in my direction confirms he’s hiding something, too.”

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Author:Katie McGarry
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“Hazan, he said, I have to fall back. The dragons know where to go and they’ll carry you to safety no matter what happens next— "Wait—where are you going—?" I must head off the other riders. All you need to do is hang on. "Cyrus, you idiot you can't head off a team of riders on your own. You're going to get yourself killed—" I’m not so easily killed, said Cyrus. She only makes it seem that way. "You self-righteous bastard," said Hazan angrily. "You really think this is the time to be melodramatic?”

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Book:Every Spiral of Fate
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