Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

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

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

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