Quotes by Thucydides

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

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

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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

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"History is Philosophy teaching by example."

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"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."

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