The eternal wisdom of Thucydides 460 B.C. – 395 B.C.
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."
“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.”
"The secret of happiness is freedom... the secret of freedom is courage."
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect,
... and self-respect is the chief element in courage."
"Of all manifestation of power, restraint impresses men most."
"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.
"So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth,
accepting readily the first story that comes to hand."
“They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.”
“We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing”
“It is useless to attack a man who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.”
