You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
THUCYDIDESYou shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
THUCYDIDESHe who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
THUCYDIDESIt is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
THUCYDIDESIgnorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
THUCYDIDESIt is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
THUCYDIDESAnd it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
THUCYDIDESThose who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
THUCYDIDESLove of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
THUCYDIDESThe bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
THUCYDIDESAn avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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.
THUCYDIDESWe Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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.
THUCYDIDESThe secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
THUCYDIDESThe growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
THUCYDIDESPeace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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