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War Quotes by Thucydides
- I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
- Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
- It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position...
- 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…
- War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
- Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
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