Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.