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History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Thucydides

Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
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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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
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
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence

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