In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
Valor is the soldier's adornment.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
Great contests generally excite great animosities.