Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
THUCYDIDESHope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
THUCYDIDESFor so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
THUCYDIDESHope, danger’s comforter.
THUCYDIDESThe secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
THUCYDIDESWhat made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
THUCYDIDESFor men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
THUCYDIDESI have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
THUCYDIDESMen’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
THUCYDIDESknowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
THUCYDIDESStories happen to those who tell them.
THUCYDIDESI am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
THUCYDIDESAnd where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
THUCYDIDESOf the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
THUCYDIDESIndeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
THUCYDIDESPeace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
THUCYDIDESThe peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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