Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
THUCYDIDESI dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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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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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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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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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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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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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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