Blow Quote by Thucydides

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.…

— Alcibiades

Produce great men, the rest follows.

— Walt Whitman

“...parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.”

— Alexandre Dumas

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

— Arthur Helps

Golden roofs break men's rest.

— Seneca the Younger

“... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity.”

— Theresa Romain

And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their…

— Thucydides

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male…

— G. Stanley Hall

You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest…

— Flower A. Newhouse

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

— Mahatma Gandhi