Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.