Thúkýdidés citáty
Thúkýdidés
Thúkydidés, řecky Θουκυδίδης, byl řecký historik, politik, autor klasického díla Dějiny peloponéské války. Je považován za zakladatele historické monografie omezené časově na historii soudobou.
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„Totožnost zájmu je nejjistější pouto mezi státy nebo jednotlivci.“
— Thúkýdidés
Source: BURCHILL, S. (2005): The National Interest in International Relations Theory, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, s. 15
„Nejodvážnější jsou nepochybně ti, kdo mají jasnou představu, co je čeká, ať jde o slávu nebo nebezpečí, jemuž jdou vstříc.“
— Thúkýdidés
Source: [Messner, Reinhold, Reinhold Messner, Cerro Torre: Tragédie na skalní jehle, Brána, Praha, 2009, 1, 253, Jaroslav Voříšek, 222, 978-80-7243-415-2]
„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.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, Context: 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.
Book II, 2.35-[1]-[3]
„In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, Context: 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.
Book II, 2.40-[3]
„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, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, Context: 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.
Book II, 2.40-[3]
„they possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI, 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)
„Disdain is the privilege of those who, like us, have been assured by reflection of their superiority to their adversary. And where the chances are the same, knowledge fortifies courage by the contempt which is its consequence, its trust being placed, not in hope, which is the prop of the desperate, but in a judgment grounded upon existing resources, whose anticipations are more to be depended upon.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, Book II, 2.62-[4]-[5]
„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.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I, Book I, 1.78-[3]
„For the true author of the subjugation of a people is not so much the immediate agent, as the power which permits it having the means to prevent it.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I, Book I, 69.
„But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, Book II, 2.40-[3]
„I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usually goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III, Book III, 3.42-[1] (Speech of Diodotus..).
„Fire signals of an attack were also raised toward Thebes, but the Plataeans in the city at once displayed a number of others, prepared beforehand for this very purpose, in order to render the enemy's signals unintelligible, and to prevent his friends from getting a true idea of what was happening and coming to his aid before their comrades who had gone out should have made good their escape and be in safety.“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III, Book III, 3.22-[7]-[8] (See also: Spoofing attack..).
„By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain?“
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII, Book VII, 7.44-[1]
