“For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.”

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation,” she said. “Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

When you’re challenged, you’re totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.