Thucydides Quotes

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• Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
• In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
• Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as…
• Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent…
• When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
• They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on…
• Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
• So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
• Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a…
• 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…
• History is Philosophy teaching by example.
• Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
• When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the…
• 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…
• The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
• The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
• Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
• Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
• The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
• Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

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