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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought - Thucydides 0 Quotes

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. - Thucydides 0 Quotes

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Greek Historian

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. - Thucydides 0 Quotes

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Greek Historian Men

The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss. - Thucydides 0 Quotes

The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. - Thucydides 0 Quotes

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Greek Historian

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must - Thucydides 0 Quotes

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. - Thucydides 0 Quotes

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

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 0 Quotes

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

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful - Thucydides 0 Quotes

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. - Thucydides 0 Quotes

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

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