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Letter "T" » Thucydides Quotes
«We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them»
«Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.»
«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»
«The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.»
Author: Thucydides
| Occasions:
Memorial day
«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»
«An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful»
«The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.»
Author: Thucydides
| About:
Beauty,
Common sense
| Keywords:
costliness, costly, masquerade, masquerading, supposedly
«History is Philosophy teaching by examples.»
Author: Thucydides
«Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.»
Author: Thucydides
| Keywords:
reserved
«[The] war like no other, ... a colossal absurdity.»
Author: Thucydides
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