The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Thucydides
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
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.