Thucydides Quote

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

Book IV, 4.17- - History of the Peloponnesian War

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you ...

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you ...

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you ...

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you ...