Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
—Thucydides
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
—Thucydides
So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.
—Thucydides
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
—Thucydides
So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.
—Thucydides
So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.
—Thucydides
Men’s indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
—Thucydides