“A well-laid plan is always to my mind most profitable; even if it is thwarted later, the plan was no less good, and it is only chance that has baffled the design; but if fortune favors one who has planned poorly, then he has gotten only a prize of chance, and his plan was no less bad.”
--Artabanus, uncle of Xerxes; book 7 of Herodotus’s Histories (I could swear I’d seen this on a LW quote thread before, but searching turns up nothing.)
--Artabanus, uncle of Xerxes; book 7 of Herodotus’s Histories (I could swear I’d seen this on a LW quote thread before, but searching turns up nothing.)