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Thucydides quotes: The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
Thucydides quotes: Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action. Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
Thucydides quotes: Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides quotes: They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities. They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
Thucydides quotes: A collision at sea can ruin your entire day. A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.
Thucydides quotes: We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides quotes: Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides quotes: When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are. When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
Thucydides quotes: And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens. And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
Thucydides quotes: For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him. For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
Thucydides quotes: I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit. I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
Thucydides quotes: In small moment of time, the climax of their lives, a culmination of glory, not of fear, were swept away from us. In small moment of time, the climax of their lives, a culmination of glory, not of fear, were swept away from us.
Thucydides quotes: Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved
Thucydides quotes: It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions. It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
Thucydides quotes: The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark.
Thucydides quotes: Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action. Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
Thucydides quotes: Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
Thucydides quotes: Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
Thucydides quotes: It is men who make a city, not walls or ships. It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
Thucydides quotes: The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men. The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
Thucydides quotes: Good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity. Good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.
Thucydides quotes: The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides quotes: Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared. Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
Thucydides quotes: People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking
Thucydides quotes: The people made their recollections fit in with their sufferings The people made their recollections fit in with their sufferings
Thucydides quotes: especially as they did not trust one another. especially as they did not trust one another.
Thucydides quotes: He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies. He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Thucydides quotes: Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
Thucydides quotes: Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on. Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
Thucydides quotes: Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design. Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
Thucydides quotes: When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest. When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
Thucydides quotes: Knowledge without understanding is useless. Knowledge without understanding is useless.
Thucydides quotes: The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers. The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
Thucydides quotes: The question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves. The question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.
Thucydides quotes: War is a violent teacher, War is a violent teacher,
Thucydides quotes: What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour. What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour.
Thucydides quotes: Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity. Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
Thucydides quotes: Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
Thucydides quotes: He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds. He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
Thucydides quotes: The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear. The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
Thucydides quotes: Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition. Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.
Thucydides quotes: So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand. So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
Thucydides quotes: You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose
Thucydides quotes: Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Thucydides quotes: What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
Thucydides quotes: A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all. A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.
Thucydides quotes: The State that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools. The State that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Thucydides quotes: Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Thucydides quotes: The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of happiness is freedom.
Thucydides quotes: I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire ... I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire ...
Thucydides quotes: a collision at sea will ruin your entire day a collision at sea will ruin your entire day
Thucydides quotes: We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
Thucydides quotes: The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
Thucydides quotes: Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most. Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
Thucydides quotes: We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides quotes: In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece. In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
Thucydides quotes: Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Thucydides quotes: Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other
Thucydides quotes: It is useless to attack a man who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position. It is useless to attack a man who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
Thucydides quotes: Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there. Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
Thucydides quotes: Knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset. Knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.
Thucydides quotes: War is a matter not so much of arms as of money. War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
Thucydides quotes: Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides quotes: It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won. It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
Thucydides quotes: It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire
Thucydides quotes: Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
Thucydides quotes: ...when these matters are discussed by practical people, the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel... ...when these matters are discussed by practical people, the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel...
Thucydides quotes: You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely. You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
Thucydides quotes: It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides quotes: An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
Thucydides quotes: It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter. It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
Thucydides quotes: History is Philosophy teaching by example. History is Philosophy teaching by example.
Thucydides quotes: I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions. I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.
Thucydides quotes: If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves, If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves,
Thucydides quotes: We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
Thucydides quotes: When night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable When night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable
Thucydides quotes: Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security. Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
Thucydides quotes: We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
Thucydides quotes: The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Thucydides quotes: The secret of freedom, courage ... The secret of freedom, courage ...
Thucydides quotes: Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure. Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
Thucydides quotes: Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
Thucydides quotes: Stories happen to those who tell them. Stories happen to those who tell them.
Thucydides quotes: The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
Thucydides quotes: Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
Thucydides quotes: My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

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