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Thucydides Quotes - Page 5

Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.

Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

"History of the Peloponnesian War". Book by Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawely Book VII, 7.29-[4],

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable

Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.291, Simon and Schuster