Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.
Thucydides
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thucydides
Historian
Thinks
Praises
Praise
Tolerant
Mankind
Speaker
Others
Rises
Wells
Speakers
Well
Jealousy
Incredulous
Long
Nearly
Hearer
Thinking
Begins
Aroused
More quotes by Thucydides
Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required
Thucydides
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
Thucydides
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
Thucydides
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.
Thucydides
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
Thucydides
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Thucydides
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
Thucydides
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other
Thucydides
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
Thucydides
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
Thucydides
The secret of freedom, courage.
Thucydides
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
Thucydides
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.
Thucydides
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
Thucydides
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
Thucydides
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
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
Thucydides
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Thucydides
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides
