And also outside of Rome: Total War. For example the 9mm Parabellum cartridges are named after that quotation. :P

But yeah, Rome sure is a nice source of quotations and proverbs.

I like the one saying: 'Make your alliances after the war is over'

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Ah rome total war. The first Cp game I loved.

Bella horrida bella!

"Two things are infinite; the Universe and Human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the Universe." -Albert Einstein

"Although a monkey wears a golden ring, it is still an ugly thing." -Old Dutch Proverb I heard from my Oma

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity - George Carlin



Medieval 2 is the best TW game in my opinion

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Roman barbarian invasions os pretty fun. I like all the old ones. Well I have only played the old ones except rome 2.

"I speak Spanish to God. Italian to men. French to woman. And German to my Horse" medieval Spanish king.

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"You don't need to burn books to destroy a culture, you just have to get people to stop reading them" -Ray Bradbury, on the similarities between Farenheit 451 and the Nazis

"No man will be discouraged to go to war, as long as he thinks he shall benefit from it" Virgil

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"Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered - Napoleon Bonaparte "

Napoleon complimented all nations he conquered/allied ._.

"Give me 100 000 croatian soldiers and I will conquer the whole world"

Stupid nationalistic turk, you ruined the Middle East and Balkan <.<

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@God

I never saw him compliment Britain and he didn't conquer or kill the Ottoman Empire.

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napoleon and britain hated each other

@Ottoman

No they were allied, even though they never helped him.

"Two powers like France and England, with a good understanding between them, might govern the world."

-Napoléon

Who said Napoleon did not compliment Britain?

BTW Ottoman is also wrong because Napoleon did conquered some part of the ottoman empire: Egypt.

@Angry Panda

Do you have a proof that that quote came from Napoleon? The quote could also have been easily misquoted as Napoleon is one of the most misquoted persons in history.

Btw yes Napoleon did conquer Egypte in his campaign, but he didn't fully conquer the Ottoman Empire.

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@God

France and the Ottoman Empire were allied since the 1500's but after Napoleon started his Egyptian campaign, the Franco-Ottoman alliance ended.

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BETTER A GLORIOUS DEATH THAN A SHAMEFUL LIFE.

DEATH before DISHONOR!!!

"I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?"
George S. Patton

A True Warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

"When you kill a man you're a murderer
Kill many and you're a Conqueror
Kill them all, and you're a GOD."

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
General George S Patton

May god have mercy on your soul, because I won't.
General George S Patton

"No man, no problem"-Guess who...lol

@ OttomanEmpire

I never said he fully conquered the Ottoman Empire, he did not planned to invade it entirely anyway, it was worthless for him, excepted Ottoman Egypt and Syria which were easily defeated by French forces, the purpose of this invasion was to strenghten French trade interests in the mediterranean sea and most of all weaken the British Indian trade. So yeah you were wrong because you stated "France never conquered the Ottoman Empire", and he did conquered some parts although he never planned to fully conquer it.

About that quote it was during an interview with the British ambassador Lord Withworth, that Napoléon said

"Deux puissances de cette force, en s'entendant bien, pourraient gouverner le monde, si je n'avais pas constamment éprouvé les effets de l'inimitié du gouvernement britannique depuis le traité d'Amiens, poursuivit-il, il n'y aurait rien que je ne fisse pour lui prouver mon désir de vivre en bonne intelligence. J'aurais admis l'Angleterre à participer aux indemnités, aussi bien qu'à l'influence sur le Continent. J'aurais fait avec elle des traités de commerce, en un mot tout ce qui aurait pu la satisfaire et lui témoigner mes dispositions amicales. Mais rien n'a pu vaincre la haine invétérée du gouvernement anglais, et l'on en est arrivé aujourd'hui à décider la grande question de la paix ou de la guerre."

Here Napoleon tried to convince the English government to bring back peace in Europe instead of scuttling it. But nothing could overcome the inveterate hatred of the English government toward him.

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@Angry Panda

I didn't say that you said that Napoleon fully conquered the Ottoman Empire and im not wrong because Napoleon didn conquer some parts but the Ottoman Empire fully as say'd in that quote. One of the biggest reasons why Napoleon invaded Egypte was to follow the footsteps of Alexander the Great as Napoleon very much admired him, but Napoleon failed to do that after he lost the siege of Acre he was forced to retreat from Egypt afterwards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Acre_%281799%29.

Interesting, thanks for showing me the interview. I always hated how the British try to play Napoleon out as the warmonger even though he never declared war, other then Spain I think.
But I wouldn't really call quote ''Two powers like France and England, with a good understanding between them, might govern the world'' a compliment to England.

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Napoleon failed to do that after he lost the siege of Acre

I heard of it, but you forgot to mention that the British helped them, you could not win that battle alone.

And you are right about Napoléon, he was an ambitious man and he always wanted to be the guy who could build the biggest empire ever made, as he asserted that if he had:

been able to take Acre [in 1799], I would have put on a turban, I would have made my soldiers wear big Turkish trousers, and I would have exposed them to battle only in case of extreme necessity. I would have made them into a Sacred Battalion--my Immortals. I would have finished the war against the Turks with Arabic, Greek, and Armenian troops. Instead of a battle in Moravia, I would have won a Battle of Issus, I would have made myself emperor of the East, and I would have returned to Paris by way of Constantinople.