3 December 2020 Thucydides 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.
3 December 2020 Thucydides Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
3 December 2020 Thucydides Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
3 December 2020 Thucydides 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.
