Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

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

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

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

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.

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.