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
THUCYDIDESMen 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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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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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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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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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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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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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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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