Thucydides Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: 460 BC - 395 BC
Birthday: 460 BC
Death: 395 BC
For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
source: Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.111, Simon and Schuster
topic: Men, Envy, Long, Incredulity
