Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
THUCYDIDESHope, danger’s comforter.
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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 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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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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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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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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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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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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