It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
THUCYDIDESThe 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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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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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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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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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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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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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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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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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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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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