Thucydides Quotes About Peace

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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.
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Thucydides (1979). “The Speeches of Pericles”, Burns & Oates

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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.345, Penguin UK

1957
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.279, Penguin UK

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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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N.K. Rutter, Thucydides (1996). “History of the Peloponnesian War: A Companion”, Bristol Classical Press

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It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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Thucydides

Born: 460 BC
Died: 395 BC
Occupation: Historian

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