Success does not visit and abide with those who have built around themselves the finest and the strongest walls

We all know that success does not visit and abide with those who have built around themselves the finest and the strongest walls, nor with those who have collected the greatest population in one place, but rather with those who most nobly and wisely govern their state. Isocrates, Areopagiticus. Speech 7. Section 13.

Image: The siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under the command of Titus 70 CE by David Roberts, 1850.  Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.