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

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

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

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.