Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
THUCYDIDESLove of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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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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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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 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 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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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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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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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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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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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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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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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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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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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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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