Pensadores antiguos

Nobody is driven in to war by ignorance, and no one who thinks he will gain anything from it is deterred by fear.
- Hermocrates of Syracuse

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" It is a sweetand seemly thing to die for one's country
- Horace

In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons,
- Heodotus

Few man are born brave; many become so through training andforce of discipline.
- Vegetius

Only the brave enjoy noble and glorious deaths.
-Dionysius

Victory loves prudence.
- Latin proverb

The blade itself incites to violence
- Homer

Men ofAthens, there is not much time for exhortation, but to the brave a few words are as good as many.
- Hippocrates

In war important events result from trivial causes
- Gaius Julius Caesar

I am moreafraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' desings
- Pericles

A bad peace is even worse than war
- Tacitus

Necessity knows no law except to conquer
- Publilius Syrus

"Timidi mater nonflet" A coward's mother does not weep
- Latin proverb

They have an abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly
- Hermocrates of Syracuse

The true contemptof an invader os shown by deeds of valour in the field

- Hermocrates of Syracuse

A disorderly mob is no moore an army than a heap of buildings materials is a house

- Socrates

He conquerswho endures
- Presius

War is the only proper school of the surgeon
- Hipocrates

Valour is the contempt of death and pain
-Tacitus

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will bevictorius
- Sun Tzu

"Fortes fortuna adiuvat" Fortune favours the brave
- Terence

When there is a mutual fear men think twice before they make affression upon one another
- Hermocrates ofSyracuse

In war must always leave room for strokes of fortune, and accidents that cannot be foreseen
- Polybius

To a good general luck is important
- Livy

A wise man in times of peace prepares...