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Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460 B.C. - c. 395 B.C.) was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C

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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
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.
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

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