In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things that a monarch does. The lot determines offices, power is held accountable, and deliberation is conducted in public.
It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.
Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.
Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.