Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
THUCYDIDESAmassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
THUCYDIDESIn 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.
THUCYDIDESNow the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
THUCYDIDESWhen a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
THUCYDIDESIt is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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.
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.
THUCYDIDESFew things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
THUCYDIDESThose who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
THUCYDIDESWhen will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
THUCYDIDESBe 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.
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.
THUCYDIDESIgnorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
THUCYDIDESHope, danger’s comforter.
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.
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