...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." And if you are ever tempted to think that you succeed because you hit off...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves, nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth."* In the face of such an enemy delay was fatal. Let the Spartans at last shake...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves, nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." * In the face of such an enemy delay was fatal. Let the Spartans at last shake...

...the utmost ; when defeated they fall back the least. . . . If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he. would simply speak the truth." To all this rhetoric the Athenians seem to have answered in a cooler strain....

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth."1 The qualities here set forth by Thucydides as characteristic of the Athenians,...

...and inaction is more irksome than the most tedious endeavor. If a man should say of them, in fine, that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." The same Spartan assembly heard the grievances of Megara and ^Egina, and decided...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." On the present occasion, however, the Athenians did not give Diplomatic an...

...holiday, and they deem the quiet of inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome occupation. If a man should say of them that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to others he would simply speak the truth.'2 And Xenophon gives the Athenians a similar character. After...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves, nor to allow peace to others, he would simply speak the truth. In the face of such an enemy, Lacedaemonians, you persist...

...inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth. In the face of such an enemy, you persist in doing nothing. . . . But here...