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.
THUCYDIDESWars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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 often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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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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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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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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 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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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