When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
THUCYDIDESHe passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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