The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
A long-circulating form of the thought — wording may vary by translator or commonplace book.
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The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Thucydides
The Commonplace