~ Thucydides Quotes ~

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Thucydides Quotes


A Greek historian and author from Alimos.
Thucydides (c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC) was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history", because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.

Here are some famous quotes by Thucydides.

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

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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life do not on that account shrink from danger.