We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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.
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.