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Wisdom in leaving the cities

“When it was proposed to King Cyrus that the Persians abandon their barren homeland and move

to the fertile plains they had conquered, the persian king replied that they might act upon it if

they pleases, but added the warning that, if they did so, they must prepare themselves to rule no

longer, but to be ruled by others. ‘Soft countries,’ he said, ‘breed soft men. It is not the property

of any one soil to produce fine fruits and good soldiers too.’ The persians had to admit that this

was true and that Cyrus was wiser than they; so they left him, and chose rather to live in a rugged

land and rule than to cultivate rich plains and be subject to others…The difference between firm

bodies and soft bodies was the divided between rulers and slaves.” -Shigehisa Kuriyama, The

Expressiveness of the Body