Thucydides Quotes & Sayings

14 most famous Thucydides quotes and sayings (historian). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

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

“Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.”

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”

“We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.”

“Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.”

“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”

“The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.”

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

“Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.”

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