Thucydides
  • Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

  • 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.

  • Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

  • History is Philosophy teaching by example.

  • Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.