We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.


Book VI, 6.23- - History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides Quotes

We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be...

We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be...

We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be...

We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be...