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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.

Thucydides

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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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
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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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
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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Action Learning Safety Training True
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
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.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason
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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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason

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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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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