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Thucydides Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.



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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.



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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing



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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.



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Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?




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