215 Quotes by Thucydides

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.