We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
THUCYDIDESI 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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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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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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It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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 they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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