Thucydides
Thucydides was a Greek Historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Even former Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew read him as he has quoted Thucydides. The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them. A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and fighting done by fools. The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. Men naturally d...