Famous Thucydides Quotations

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"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."
by Thucydides
"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools."
by 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."
by Thucydides
"The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage."
by Thucydides
"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
by Thucydides
"The secret of freedom, courage."
by Thucydides
"For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them."
by Thucydides, The Mytilenian Debate (427 BCE)


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