"In a democracy, someone who fails to get……" — Thucydides
"In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it."
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83 Quotes by Thucydides
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- 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…
- We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
- For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
- The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
- The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards…
- We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of…
- Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
- An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
- Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
- The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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