I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

The secret of freedom, courage.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

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 dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.