Greek - Historian | 460 BC - 395 BC
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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.
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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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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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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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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We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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