Quotes by : Thucydides

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and....

You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when....

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not....

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of....

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal....

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing....

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....

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories....

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