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“...soft places tend to produce soft men; for the same land cannot yield both wonderful crops and men who are noble and courageous in war. And so the Persians agreed with him and departed, leaving him alone. They had lost the argument with Cyrus, and chose to dwell in a poor land rather than to be slaves to others and to cultivate the plains.”

Excerpt From: Herodotus, Robert B. Strassler. “The Landmark Herodotus: Histories [2007, 2009].” iBooks.