Thucydides Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	But 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.	Courage
2	For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.	Freedom
3	It is only the love of honour that never grows old; and honour it is, not gain, as some would have it, that rejoices the heart of age and helplessness.	Honor
4	It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs; they expect too much of ordinary men.	Leadership
5	. . . and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining to struggle against it.	Poverty
6	This or the like was the cause of the death of a man [Nicias] who, of all the Greeks in my time, least deserved such a fate, for he had lived in the practice of every virtue.	Virtue
7	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.	War

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