Thucydides

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Thucydides

Athens exiled me. I used the time to interview both sides of the war. My history is not meant to win applause — it is a possession for all time.

·431 BC·Athens, Greece

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

·431 BC·Athens, Greece

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

·416 BC·Athens, Greece

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.