Thucydides Quotes

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• It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
• If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a…
• You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose
• Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
• People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking
• Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
• A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen…
• The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense…
• Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing…
• For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going…
• The secret of freedom, courage....
• What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
• Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
• He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
• With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not…
• Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
• The secret of happiness is freedom.
• Knowledge without understanding is useless.
• 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 men who make a city, not walls or ships.

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