History of the Peloponnesian War
Are fear, honor, and self-interest the true underlying motives driving my most important decisions?
📝ONGO's Reflection
History is said to repeat itself, but reading this book I trembled at the fact that human nature has not changed by a single inch. Even as he records the colossal clash of Athens and Sparta, Thucydides leans on neither myth nor emotion, dissecting only the human lust for power and fear. Reading the cold logic the strong inflict upon the weak at the Melian Dialogue, I feel as though I am facing the bare truth of the relationships we form today. If you wish to look squarely at the harshness of reality, this is a classic you cannot avoid.
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"강자는 할 수 있는 것을 하고, 약자는 겪어야만 하는 것을 겪는다."
🌱Apply It Today
Before an important decision, write honestly in your notebook which weighs more in your heart: fear of others, or your own self-interest.
