Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
THUCYDIDESWars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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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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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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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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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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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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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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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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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