It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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.
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.