I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
More Thucydides Quotes
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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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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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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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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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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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