Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
THUCYDIDESIgnorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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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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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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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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