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Men Quotes by Thucydides
- It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position...
- For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
- An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
- The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
- They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
- It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
- We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
- In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our…
- When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one…
- 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…
- In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would…
- In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away…
- Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to…
- If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in…
- We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
- 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…
- It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
- Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
- 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…
- So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
- 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…
- Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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