Quote

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

Thucydides

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thucydides
Historian
Littles
Accept
Little
Accepting
Firsts
Trouble
First
Hand
Take
Whatever
Men
Comes
Hands
Readily
Truth
Search

More quotes by Thucydides

Image
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
Thucydides
Image
Hatred also is short lived but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
Thucydides
Image
We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.
Thucydides
Image
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.
Thucydides
Image
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
Thucydides
Image
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
Thucydides
Image
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
Thucydides
Image
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other
Thucydides
Image
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Thucydides
Image
... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.
Thucydides
Image
...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.
Thucydides
Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.
Thucydides
Image
Stories happen to those who tell them.
Thucydides
Image
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited 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
Image
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
Thucydides
Image
we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
Thucydides
Image
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
Thucydides
Image
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
Thucydides
Image
War is an evil thing but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.
Thucydides
Image
Hope, danger's comforter
Thucydides