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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.

Thucydides

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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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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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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Equality Exit Legal Man Superior Violence
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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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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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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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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