Thucydides
Thucydides
Thucydideswas 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. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionHistorian
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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
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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.
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Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
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Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.