Historian

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.