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.
THUCYDIDESHe who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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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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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.
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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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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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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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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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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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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