Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

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

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

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.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, 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.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.