I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

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.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.