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Thucydides [-460--395] Greek

Rank: 101
Historian

Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC.

Men, Anger, Courage, Freedom, Happiness, Intelligence, Knowledge, Legal, Respect, Teacher, War

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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.	Men	101
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.	Intelligence, Knowledge	102
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.	Courage, Freedom, Happiness	103
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.	Legal, Men	104
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.	Anger	105
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.		106
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.		107
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.	War	108
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.		109
History is Philosophy teaching by example.	Teacher	110
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.		111
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.		112
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.		113
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.	Respect	114
We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.		115

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