Stories happen to those who tell them.
THUCYDIDESBe 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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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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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