Thucydides, History Of The Peloponnesian War Quotes

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.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.