The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
THUCYDIDESOf 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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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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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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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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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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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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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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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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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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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