When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
THUCYDIDESThose who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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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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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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