Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
THUCYDIDESFor 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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Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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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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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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