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"Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth,
but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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.
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
Of of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition,
was the cause of all these evils.
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well
and look up to those who make no concessions.
We must remember that one man is much the same as another
and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect,
and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
History is philosophy teaching by example.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
In 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.
The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs
is not merely lazy but good for nothing.
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors
will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
In practice, we always base our preparations against an enemy
on the assumption that his plans are good indeed.
It is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders
but on the soundness of our provisions.
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.