For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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.
