You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
THUCYDIDESThe secret of freedom, courage.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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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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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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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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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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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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