Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
THUCYDIDESWhen 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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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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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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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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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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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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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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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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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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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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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