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Type: Historian Quotes Category: Greek Historian Quotes Year of Birth: 460 BC Year of Death: 395 BC Nationality: Greek Find on Amazon: Thucydides Related Authors: Christopher Lasch Stephen Ambrose Herodotus Henry B. Adams Hannah Arendt Sallust Will Durant Edward Gibbon |
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
Thucydides 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 Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. Thucydides History is Philosophy teaching by examples. Thucydides Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. Thucydides It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. Thucydides Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. Thucydides Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Thucydides Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. Thucydides 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 The secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. Thucydides The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. Thucydides Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. Thucydides We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Thucydides We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. Thucydides |
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