For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action. Thucydides More Quotes by Thucydides More Quotes From Thucydides In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours. Thucydides favour receiving generosity You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it. Thucydides gains pieces mistake Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. Thucydides law men believe I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire. Thucydides incapable empires democracy Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it. Thucydides memorable war believe Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition. Thucydides ambition The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. Thucydides We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. Thucydides A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools. Thucydides The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides freedom secret courage happiness Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. Thucydides will who athens justice We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. Thucydides best man remember school 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. Thucydides wrong legal men looks
