We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
THUCYDIDESWe secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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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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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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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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