215 Quotes by Thucydides

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty.