When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
ThucydidesFew things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
ThucydidesWe Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
ThucydidesFor so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
Thucydides