History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
“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.”
“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
“For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war." [Funeral Oration of Pericles]”
“When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.”
“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
“Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.”
“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.”
“The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine I have written my work not as an essay with which to win the applause of the moment but as a possession for all time.”
“Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited 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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