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First Quotes by Thucydides
- 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…
- Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second…
- 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…
- 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…
- Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
- 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…
- 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…
- So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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