Quotes by : Thucydides

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

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

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or....

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....

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in....

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.