I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Call no man happy before he dies.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.