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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.

Thucydides

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
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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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
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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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
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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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
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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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
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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Himself Man Remember School Training
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Beginning Cultivation Learning People
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.

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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.

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