On Justice, Power and Human Nature Quotes

“If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves,”
― Thucydides, On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War

“War is a violent teacher,”
― Thucydides, On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War

“Civil war brought many hardships to the cities, such as happen and will always happen as long as human nature is the same, although they may be more or less violent or take different forms, depending on the circumstances in each case.”
― Thucydides, On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War

“Digressions for instruction’s cause, and other such open conveyances of precepts (which is the philosopher’s part), he never useth; as having so clearly set before men’s eyes the ways and events of good and evil counsels, that the narration itself doth secretly instruct the reader, and more effectually than can possibly be done by precept.”
― Thucydides, The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War