Thucydides

Thus they toil on in trouble and danger all the days of their life, with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting: their only idea of a holiday is to do what the occasion demands, and to them laborious occupation is less of a misfortune than the peace of a quiet life. To describe their character in a word, one might truly say that they were born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others.

self-control contains honour as a chief constituent, and honour bravery.

[T]he freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.