[H]ere we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly. - Thucydides

I blame not those who wish to rule, but those who are willing to serve. The same human nature which is always ready to domineer over the subservient, bids us defend ourselves against the aggressor.

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

The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection;