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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

Thucydides

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
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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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
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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Himself Man Remember School Training
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
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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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
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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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War

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