The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
THUCYDIDESRemember 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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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 Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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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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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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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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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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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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.
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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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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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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