The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
THUCYDIDESI dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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