Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

About Thucydides

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Thucydides ( thew-SID-ih-deez; Ancient Greek: Θουκυδίδης, romanised: Thoukudídēs [tʰuːkydǐdɛːs]; c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific...

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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

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I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.

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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

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