Thucydides Famous Quotes



"The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage."

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


Thucydides Quotations






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"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect."
Frederick Douglas

"I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I'm not where I used to be."
Ainsley Carry

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried."
Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B F Skinner

All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised."
David Assael

The most important thing about having goals is having one.
Geoffrey F Albert

Each body has its art...
Gwendolyn Brooks