The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

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.