“Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.”

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

Stories happen to those who tell them.

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.

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.

Don’t confuse meaning with truth.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

Love needs to be proved by action.

When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.

People say a lot. So, she watches what they do.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.