One Made The Observation Of The People

For To Err In Opinion, Though It Be Not The Part Of Wise Men, Is At Least Human.

Were It Only To Learn Benevolence To Humankind, We Should Be Merciful To Other Creatures.

But The Lacedaemonians, Who Make It Their First Principle Of Action To Serve Their Country's Interest, Know Not Any Thing To Be Just Or Unjust By Any Measure But That.

He Who First Called Money The Sinews Of The State Seems To Have Said This With Special Reference To War.

Being Summoned By The Athenians Out Of Sicily To Plead For His Life, Alcibiades Absconded, Saying That That Criminal Was A Fool Who Studied A Defence When He Might Fly For It.