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Выглядит как цитата какого-нибудь деятеля XIX века времен "Весны народов", но нет, это Гиппократ.

On this account the inhabitants of Europe are than the Asiatics, and also owing to their institutions, because they are not governed by kings like the latter, for where men are governed by kings there they must be very cowardly, as I have stated before; for their souls are enslaved, and they will not willingly, or readily undergo dangers in order to promote the power of another; but those that are free undertake dangers on their own account, and not for the sake of others; they court hazard and go out to meet it, for they themselves bear off the rewards of victory, and thus their institutions contribute not a little to their courage.

Hippocrates. On Airs, Waters, and Places

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А еще Гиппократ пишет, что невозможно быть одновременно гурманом и пьяницей. Без подробностей, просто как факт.