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.

The secret of freedom, courage.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

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

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.

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

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