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„Najlepszą kobietą jest ta, o której na zewnątrz domu nie słyszy się nic złego ani dobrego…”

Wariant: Najlepszą kobietą jest ta, o której najmniej się mówi.

Tukidydes: Cytaty po angielsku

“they possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.”

Thucydides Wojna peloponeska

Book VI, 6.34; "they have abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly" ( trans. http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/jthucbk6rv2.htm Benjamin Jowett)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI

“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.”

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Variant translations:<p>But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Thuc.+2.40.3<p>And they are most rightly reputed valiant, who though they perfectly apprehend both what is dangerous and what is easy, are never the more thereby diverted from adventuring. (translation by Thomas Hobbes http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=771&chapter=90127&layout=html&Itemid=27)<p>
Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II

“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”

Thucydides Wojna peloponeska

Variant translation: "...the search for truth strains the patience of most people, who would rather believe the first things that come to hand." Translation by Paul Woodruff.
Book I, 1.20-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.”

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Book VI, 6.34-[9]; "the true contempt of an invader is shown by deeds of valour in the field" ( trans. http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/jthucbk6rv2.htm Benjamin Jowett)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI

“In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.”

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Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Kontekst: Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

“I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.”

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Book II, 2.35-[1]-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Kontekst: I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth. On the one hand, the friend who is familiar with every fact of the story may think that some point has not been set forth with that fullness which he wishes and knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to the matter may be led by envy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his own nature. For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

“Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection.”

Thucydides Wojna peloponeska

Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Kontekst: Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

“Ignorance produces rashness, reflection timidity”

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Book II, 40.3
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II

“I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire…”

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Book III, 3.37-[1] (Speech of Cleon..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III

“Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.”

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Book V, 5.105-[2]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V

“Right or community of blood was not the bond of union between them, so much as interest or compulsion as the case may be.”

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Book VII, 7.57-[1]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII

“here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.”

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Book V, 5.105-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V

“It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster to discuss the matter.”

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Book I, 1.78-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“we must make up our minds to look for our protection not to legal terrors but to careful administration.”

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Book III, 3.46-[4]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III

“the freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.”

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Book I, 1.84-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an objective, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were established almost everywhere…”

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Book I, 1.13-[1] (See also: Karl Marx, Grundrisse, Introduction p. 7)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

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