Author of quotes: Thucydides
The love of power, operating through greed and personal ambition, was the cause of all evil.
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MegaMozg 15-03-2024 / 17:33
The true reason for the war (though hidden), in my opinion, was the fear of the Lacedemonians to the growing power of Athens, and forced them to fight.
Quote Explanation: From "History of the Peloponnesian war". The term "Thucydides trap", introduced by Graham Allisona, used in modern political analysis and journalism to describe international relations, for example, China and the United States. Graham Allison of Tillett — known American political scientist.
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MegaMozg 26-07-2020 / 19:21
The tomb of the valiant - the whole earth.
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MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 21:46
That woman deserves the greatest of respect, which is the least talk among men, in censure or in praise.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 17:42
Since the war, people immediately begin to take action, which would have to wait, and even after the failure of the appeal to reason.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 17:42
Only mutual fear makes the Union reliable.
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MegaMozg 11-01-2017 / 15:46
The strong do as they want and the weak suffer as they should.
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MegaMozg 11-01-2017 / 11:07
Nobody is still prudent, conceiving the plan and bringing it to pass. In reasoning we are solid, and the action give in to the fear.
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MegaMozg 04-01-2017 / 10:40
Success in war depends not on weapons, but from the funds in which the arms only and benefits.
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MegaMozg 04-01-2017 / 10:40
People (...) more annoying injustice supposedly caused them, than the most brutal violence: this they see the neglect on the part of peers, in the other - the need to submit to violence more powerful.
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MegaMozg 04-01-2017 / 10:40
A confession of poverty is no disgrace, but shameful not to aspire to get rid of her labor.
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MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 09:23
Ignorance makes people brave, and pondering indecisive.
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MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 09:23
History likes to repeat itself.
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MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 09:23
I believe that citizens are much more useful when the whole state is booming than when individuals live happily, the whole is also destroyed.
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MegaMozg 02-01-2017 / 20:19
I fear much more of our own mistakes than of the enemy's plans.
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MegaMozg 02-01-2017 / 20:19
