For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.


Thucydides (ed. 1881)

Thucydides Quotes

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into...

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into...

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into...

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into...