 History is Philosophy teaching by examples. |
| We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. |
| The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. |
| We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. |
| Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. |
| Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. |
| Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. |
| The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. |
| Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. |
| Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. |
| Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. |
| Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. |
| The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. |
| It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. |
