For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
THUCYDIDESThe whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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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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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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 whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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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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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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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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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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