Home / Quotes / Quote by Thucydides

Quote by Thucydides

“Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.”

Quote by Thucydides

Author

Thucydides, a renowned Greek historian, lived from 460 BC to 395 BC. His work, 'The History of the Peloponnesian War', is considered a classic in Western historical writing, known for its meticulous record of facts and profound political analysis. more

You May Also Like

“I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.”

Men Wells Hard Fall Individual Speak Difficult Subjects Mouths Brave Ill Reputation Convince Spokes Speak The Truth Brave Man

Book:History of Greece

Source: History of Greece

“In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.”

Generosity Receiving Favour

Book:History of Greece

Source: History of Greece

“Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.”

Men Firsts Made Blow Strikes Superiors

Book:History of Greece

Source: History of Greece

“The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.”

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.”

Ifs Mistake Pieces Gains Advantage Fortune Extraordinary Reputation Honour You Choose Expecting Good Fortune

Book:History of Greece

Source: History of Greece

“You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.”

Life Can Not Life Death

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.”

Men Play Church Five Four Harmony Lifetime Boxes Organs Jingles

Author:Austin O'Malley

“My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.”

Knows Pain Actors Hurt Millions Emotional West Defeat It Hurts Emotional Pain Wild West Wild Wild West

Author:Will Smith

“Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.”

Men Different Subjects Every Man Ignorant Different Subjects

Author:Will Rogers

“Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.”

Should Term Subjects Prison Participants Parades Nuisance

Book:The Writings of Will Rogers

Source: The Writings of Will Rogers