Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

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.

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 must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.