Memorable Quotes and quotations from ThucydidesThucydides Greek historian (471 BC - 400 BC)Thucydides - - The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. Thucydides - - The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. Thucydides - - 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. 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 - Peloponnesian War - We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. |
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