Two translations For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness.
More Quotes from Thucydides:
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.Thucydides
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
Thucydides
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Thucydides
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
Thucydides
To great men the whole world is a sepulcher.
Thucydides
The great wish of some is to avenge themselves on some particular enemy, the great wish of others to save their own pocket. Slow in assembling, they devote a very small fraction of the time to the consideration of any public object, most of it to the prosecution of their own objects. Meanwhile each fancies that no harm will come of his neglect, that it is the business of somebody else to look after this or that for him and so, by the same notion being entertained by all separately, the common cause imperceptibly decays.
Thucydides
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Beauty Quotes, Mind Quotes, Wisdom & Knowledge QuotesBased on Keywords: manliness
Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.
Jennifer Sky
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
Roy Clark