Greek - Historian | 460 BC - 395 BC
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
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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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