...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." And if you are ever tempted to think that you succeed because you hit off perfectly the passing mood...

...of inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome work. In a word, if a man should say of them that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he would speak the simple truth." " Neither to have peace themselves, nor to allow peace to other men " —...

...twenty centuries ago, and as they are to-day, the mission of the best and noblest will always be " neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men." But note, only of the best and noblest, not of ordinary men ; only of those to whom it is given to...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves,...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth."* In the face of such an enemy delay was fatal. Let the Spartans at last shake off their lethargy, and...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves,...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." * In the face of such an enemy delay was fatal. Let the Spartans at last shake off their lethargy,...

...the utmost ; when defeated they fall back the least. . . . If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves...peace to other men, he. would simply speak the truth." To all this rhetoric the Athenians seem to have answered in a cooler strain. They called to memory...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves...allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth."1 The qualities here set forth by Thucydides as characteristic of the Athenians, were partly...

...and you are always at home. For they hope to gain something by the venture ; you fear to risk what you have already. Their bodies they devote to their...Spartan assembly heard the grievances of Megara and ^Egina, and decided that the action of Athens had abrogated the " thirty years' treaty." Accordingly,...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." On the present occasion, however, the Athenians did not give Diplomatic an example of that promptness...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves...other men, he would simply speak the truth." * The qualities here set forth by Thucydides as characteristic of the Athenians, were partly the cause and...