Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
THUCYDIDESRight, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
THUCYDIDESHistory is Philosophy teaching by example.
THUCYDIDESSo little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
THUCYDIDESIt is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
THUCYDIDESContempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
THUCYDIDESOf the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
THUCYDIDESFor they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
THUCYDIDESI think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
THUCYDIDESFor so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
THUCYDIDESLove of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
THUCYDIDESWhen one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
THUCYDIDESThe strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
THUCYDIDESIgnorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
THUCYDIDESIt is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
THUCYDIDESI have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
THUCYDIDESWe Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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