Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
THUCYDIDESSpeculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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