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

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

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

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.