Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
– Thucydides
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.
– Thucydides
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
– Thucydides
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
– Thucydides
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
– Thucydides
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
– Thucydides
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.
– Thucydides
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.