Frases de Tucídides

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“O mal não deve ser imputado apenas àqueles que o praticam, mas também àqueles que poderiam tê-lo evitado e não o fizeram.”

“Os mais corajosos são certamente aqueles que têm a visão mais clara do que está diante deles, glória ou perigo, e mesmo assim, saem para seu encontro.”

“A ignorância é audaz; a sabedoria, reservada.”

“A melhor mulher é aquela da qual não se fala nem bem nem mal.”

“Não pensem que um ser humano possa ser muito diferente de outro. A verdade é que fica com vantagem quem tiver sido formado na escola mais rude.”

“De espírito forte devem ser considerados, e com razão, os que, mesmo conhecendo claramente as dificuldades da situação e apreciando os prazeres da vida, justamente por isso não se retiram diante dos perigos”

“Entre nós é vergonhoso reconhecer a própria pobreza; mas pior do que isso é não esforçar-se para escapar dela”

“A minha história foi composta como uma aquisição para a eternidade, não para ser ouvida por ocasião do triunfo na competição de um dia”

“Ponham a felicidade na liberdade e a liberdade na bravura”

“Quem muito vive, muitos infortúnios passa.”

“In a democracy... someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.”

“the Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.”

“The country on the sea coast, now called Macedonia, was first acquired by Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his ancestors, originally Temenids from Argos…The whole is now called Macedonia, and at the time of the invasion of Sitalces, Perdiccas, Alexander's son, was the reigning king.”

“we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty”

“and their judgment was based more upon blind wishing than upon any sound prediction; for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.”

“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.”

“speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.”

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

“when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable”

“As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.”

“There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty.”

“Thus they toil on in trouble and danger all the days of their life, with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting: their only idea of a holiday is to do what the occasion demands, and to them laborious occupation is less of a misfortune than the peace of a quiet life. To describe their character in a word, one might truly say that they were born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others.”

“I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”

“The real cause I consider to be the one which was formerly most kept out of sight. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired the Lacedaemon, made war inevitable.”