What is Thucydides outlook of human nature?

Thucydides outlooks on human environment as the supreme device utilised by the famous speakers of ancient Greece in order to convince the weaker minds of the mean citizen of Athens into believing that what they are saying is best for everyone. He outlooks this as both a necessity for the government to effectively function, but at the same time he sees it as a way for the speaker to gain power in the interest of himself and not the state. In this regard Thucydides considers human environment as habitually have some slight fraud and ...