“Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.”

Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.

A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.

Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.

Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

Let No One Fall Idle.

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.