Quotes

To fight and conquer in a hundred battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in subduing the enemy without fighting.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

War is the father of all and the king of all.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Books, my brothers, books, not bells and baubles!