Thucydides

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom courage.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

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

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

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.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

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.

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.

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them glory and danger alike and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.