(Corinthians:) Of all Hellenes, Lacedaemonians, you are the only people who never do anything: on the approach of an enemy you are content to defend … - Thucydides
" "(Corinthians:) Of all Hellenes, Lacedaemonians, you are the only people who never do anything: on the approach of an enemy you are content to defend yourselves against him, not by acts, but by intentions, and seek to overthrow him, not in the infancy but in the fulness of his strength.
(Book 1 Chapter 69.4)
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Thucydides (or Thoukydides)(c. 472 BC – c. 400 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. This work is widely regarded a classic and represents the first work of its kind.
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(Athenian embassy:) Realise, while there is time, the inscrutable nature of war; and how when protracted it generally ends in becoming a mere matter of chance, over which neither of us can have any control, the event being equally unknown and equally hazardous to both.
The misfortune is that in their hurry to go to war, men begin with blows, and when a reverse comes upon them, then have recourse to words.
(Book 1 Chapter 78.1-3)
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