When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Words will build no walls.