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.
THUCYDIDESFew things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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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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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is 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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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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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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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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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