for it has always been law that the weaker should be subject to the stronger. - Thucydides

But what most oppressed them was that they had two wars at once, and has thus reached a pitch of frenzy which no one would have believed possible if he had heard of it before it had come to pass.

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

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster to discuss the matter.