The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.