Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

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.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.