Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-4] of 4 Thucydides quotesThucydides QuotesThucydides As the world goes, right is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.~ Thucydides The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.~ Thucydides For it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy.~ Thucydides Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.~ Thucydides Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print