War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
The secret of freedom, courage.
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.