Greater is our terror of the unknown.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
No law is quite appropriate for all.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
Woe to the conquered.
...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Valor is the soldier's adornment.
A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
From abundance springs satiety.
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
Adversity reminds men of religion.
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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