People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position... — Thucydides Copy Share Image
War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
