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Thucydides
Greek
Historian
About the author
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Friends
#Favors
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 perils of war.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#War
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Successful
#Desire
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Teaching
#History
#Philosophy
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Ignorance
#Knowledge
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Men
#Misfortune
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Will
#Justice
#Athens
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Respect
#Men
#Court
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Freedom
#Happiness
#Courage
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Vision
#Danger
#Glory
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Being
#First
#Anger
#Causes
#Spring
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Mind
#Lovers
#Loss
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Thucydides,
Greek
Historian
#Being
#First
#Men
#Wrong
#Legal