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

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.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

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.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.