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

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.