Quotes by : Thucydides

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought....

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions....

The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged....

In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good;....

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like....

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might....

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who having the clearest sense of both the pains and....

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion....