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History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Thucydides

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
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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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
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
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
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
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
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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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
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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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
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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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope

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