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.
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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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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