Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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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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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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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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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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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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