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.

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.

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.