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Фукиди́д — крупнейший древнегреческий историк, основатель исторической науки, автор «Истории Пелопоннесской войны». Wikipedia  

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“In a democracy... someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book VIII, 8.89
As quoted in A Historical Commentary on Thucydides: A Companion to Rex Warner’s Penguin Translation, David Cartwright/Rex Warner, University of Michigan Press (1997), p. 298 : ISBN 0472084194
In the Richard Crawley translation, this quote is rendered as follows : [U]nder a democracy a disappointed candidate accepts his defeat more easily, because he has not the humiliation of being beaten by his equals.
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VIII

“the Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book VII, 7.29-[4]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII

“speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book I, 1.121-[5]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“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

Book III, 3.42-[1] (Speech of Diodotus..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III

“when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book IV, 4.125-[1]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book IV

“I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book I, Chapter V
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“The real cause I consider to be the one which was formerly most kept out of sight. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired the Lacedaemon, made war inevitable.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book I, 1.23-[6]. (See: Thucydides Trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides%20Trap)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

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