We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us ….

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones..

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos..

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, und….

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible..

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamo….

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule..

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods..

That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes ….

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning..

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become ….

Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conqu….

Knowing how to win is the first step. We must also know how to make use of our victories..

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories..

Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to ke….

How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the….

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no l….

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea..

From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious histor….

The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of t….

All things are subject to decay and change..