Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
THUCYDIDESConcessions 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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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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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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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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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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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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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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