It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
THUCYDIDESDon’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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