Do not be puffed up by misfortunes of your adversaries

Instead of being puffed up by the misfortunes of your adversaries, you ought to think of breaking their spirit before giving yourselves up to confidence. Thucydides quoting Nicias before the invasion of Sicily. The History of the Peloponnesian War. Book 6.

Image: The Ludovisi Gaul thought to be a Roman copy of Greek original by Epigonus commissioned by Julius Caesar 1st century BCE photographed at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome, Italy.