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snuffysgat
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Not to nit-pick, but the creation of the Latin phrase "Si vis Pacem, Para Bellum" - roughly translated as "If you want peace, prepare for war" is generally thought to have been by Flavius Vegetius Renatus, in about 390 BCE. This makes good sense, that a Latin phrase might be written by a Roman, and not by Thucydides, who was Greek.
If you wish to quote Thucydides, (ca. 460-400 BCE) and he is quite worthy of it, try one of these phrases, which he was known to have written:
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
"It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter."
"History is Philosophy teaching by examples."
Remember, Thucydides' greatest work, the "Peloponnesian War", is exactly the story of a democratic superpower being led by militaristic folly to utter ruin.
"Every child had a pretty good shot,
To get at least as far as their old man got,
But something happened on the way to that place,
They threw an American flag in our face."
-Billy Joel, "Allentown"
If you wish to quote Thucydides, (ca. 460-400 BCE) and he is quite worthy of it, try one of these phrases, which he was known to have written:
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
"It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter."
"History is Philosophy teaching by examples."
Remember, Thucydides' greatest work, the "Peloponnesian War", is exactly the story of a democratic superpower being led by militaristic folly to utter ruin.
"Every child had a pretty good shot,
To get at least as far as their old man got,
But something happened on the way to that place,
They threw an American flag in our face."
-Billy Joel, "Allentown"