Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

"It is more disgraceful, at least for those who have a name to lose, to gain one's ends by deceit which pretends to be morality than by open violence."

• From a speech attributed to Brasidas in the History of the Peloponnesian War (Book IV, section 86) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).  

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Brasidas (Sayings of the Spartans)

Brasidas (d. 422 BCE)

"There is nothing so tiny that it lacks the courage to repel its assailants and save itself."

• Quote attributed to the Spartan general, Brasidas, recoreded in the Sayings of the Spartans, presumably collected by Plutarch, included in On Sparta, translated by Richard J. A. Talbert. New York: Penguin Classics, 2005.

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