Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
THUCYDIDESWe secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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