Thucydides and Pelius Are Comrades
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
We are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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.
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
We are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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.
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.