Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
THUCYDIDESThose who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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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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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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It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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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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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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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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