Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
THUCYDIDESKnowledge without understanding is useless.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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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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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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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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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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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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