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 of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
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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.
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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
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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.
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A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.