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 | "Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on." | |
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Found in the topic Peace.
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| "Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the
Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke
out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any
that had preceded it." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, And the secret of Freedom,
Courage." | |
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Found in the topic Courage.
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| "The real disgrace of poverty is not in owning to the fact But in
declining to struggle against it." | |
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Found in the topic Poverty.
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| "Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire,
but most by calm and prudent forethought." | |
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Found in the topic Calm.
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| "Two translations: For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in
our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. We are
lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without
unmanliness." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity
for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a
real degredation to make no effort to overcome." | |
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Found in the topic Wealth.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Brave.
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| "With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting
myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not
even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself,
partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report always being
tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have
cost me some labor from the want of coincidence between accounts of the
same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from
imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the
other." | |
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Found in the topic See.
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| "Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are
as indignant as those who are injured." | |
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Found in the topic Justice.
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| "Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands
not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all
in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors
talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on
grounds of excellence alone. And as we give free play to all in our public
life, so we carry the same spirit into our daily relations with one
another.... Open and friendly in our private intercourse, in our public
acts we keep strictly within the control of law. We acknowledge the
restraint of reverence; we are obedient to whomsoever is set in authority,
and to the laws, more sepecially to those which offer protection to the
oppressed and those unwritten ordinances whose transgression brings
admitted shame. lb. II, Funeral Oration of Pericles, 37" | |
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Found in the topic Democracy.
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| "The great wish of some is to avenge themselves on some particular
enemy, the great wish of others to save their own pocket. Slow in
assembling, they devote a very small fraction of the time to the
consideration of any public object, most of it to the prosecution of their
own objects. Meanwhile each fancies that no harm will come of his neglect,
that it is the business of somebody else to look after this or that for
him; and so, by the same notion being entertained by all separately, the
common cause imperceptibly decays." | |
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Found in the topic Selfishness.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Goals.
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