I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
THUCYDIDES
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
More Thucydides Quotes
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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