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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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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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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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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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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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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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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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