“Knowledge without understanding is useless.” ~ Thucydides
“The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.” ~ Thucydides
“The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides
“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.” ~ 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
“We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.” ~ Thucydides
“Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.” ~ Thucydides
“We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.” ~ Thucydides
“When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.” ~ Thucydides
“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.” ~ Thucydides
“When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.” ~ Thucydides
“It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.” ~ Thucydides
