The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

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

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.