We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
THUCYDIDESBut 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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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 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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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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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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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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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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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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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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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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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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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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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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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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