Thucydides Quotes
"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
(Related: War)
"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."
- Thucydides
(Related: Successful, Desire)
"History is Philosophy teaching by examples."
- Thucydides
(Related: History, Philosophy, Teaching)
"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."
- Thucydides
(Related: Knowledge, Ignorance)
"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."
- Thucydides
(Related: Men, Misfortune)
"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured."
- Thucydides
(Related: Athens, Justice, Will)
"Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them."
- Thucydides
(Related: Men, Court, Respect)
"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."
- Thucydides
(Related: Happiness, Courage, Freedom)
"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
(Related: Vision, Danger, Glory)
"The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept."
- Thucydides
"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."
- Thucydides
(Related: Anger, Being, Causes, First, Spring)
"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness."
- Thucydides
(Related: Loss, Lovers, Mind)
"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
(Related: Legal, Men, Being, First, Wrong)