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All Quotes by author - Thucydides

" 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. "

" Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. "

" History is Philosophy teaching by example. "

" Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. "

" It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. "

" Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. "

" Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. "

" The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. "

" Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. "

" We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. "

" We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. "

" We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. "

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