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Things Quotes by Thucydides
- Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
- The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who…
- I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness…
- People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking
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