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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli.Some are Plato, Thucydides etc ... doesnt anyone check these? — Niccolo Machiavelli
A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.
— Thucydides
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
— Thucydides
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
— Thucydides
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
— Joseph Joubert
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
— Thucydides
In small moment of time, the climax of their lives, a culmination of glory, not of fear, were swept away from us.
— Thucydides
You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.
— Adrian McKinty
Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved
— Thucydides
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
— Thucydides
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
— Thucydides
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
— Thucydides
Good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.
— Thucydides
History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
especially as they did not trust one another.
— Thucydides
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
— Thucydides
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
— Thucydides
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
— Thucydides
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
— Thucydides
The question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.
— Thucydides
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
— Thucydides
There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.
— Jacob Burckhardt
War is a violent teacher,
— Thucydides
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
— Thucydides
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
— Thucydides
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
— Richard Cobden
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
— Thucydides
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
— Thucydides
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
— Thucydides
a collision at sea will ruin your entire day
— Thucydides
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
— Thucydides
The secret of happiness is freedom.
— Thucydides
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.
— Thomas Jefferson
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
— Thucydides
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
— Thucydides
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
— Thucydides
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
— Thucydides
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
— Thucydides
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other
— Thucydides
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
— Thucydides
You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose
— Thucydides
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
— Steven Pressfield
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
— Thucydides
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
— Thucydides
The secret of freedom, courage ...
— Thucydides
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
— Thucydides
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
— Thucydides
Stories happen to those who tell them.
— Thucydides
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
— Thucydides
My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.
— Thucydides
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
— Thucydides