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
being-free courageous depends
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
mistake war waiting
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
mistake enemy intention
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.
mistake pieces gains
You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.
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Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.