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

And the rarest dangers are those in which failure brings little loss and success the greatest advantage.

hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined;

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. And it was at a somewhat later stage of this development that they went on the expedition against Troy.