Thucydides Quote

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

Book VI, 6.18- - History of the Peloponnesian War

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.