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THUCYDIDESIt is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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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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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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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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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 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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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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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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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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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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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For 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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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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