Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
THUCYDIDESFor men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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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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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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