The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. - Thucydides

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

Events of future history will be of the same nature - or nearly so - as the history of the past, so long as men are men.

However well off a man may be in his private life, he will still be involved in the general ruin if his country is destroyed; whereas, so long as the state itself is secure, individuals have a much greater chance of recovering from their private misfortunes.