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

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.