The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
THUCYDIDESMost 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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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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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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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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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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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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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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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