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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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