Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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