Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
THUCYDIDESWe 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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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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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 sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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