Quotes by Thucydides

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They...

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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

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History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm...

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free...

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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them,...

#Bravery

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the...

#Cheating

The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the...

#Facts, #Risk-taking

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to...

#Escapism, #Grace, #Poverty