Knowledge without understanding is useless.
THUCYDIDESWe secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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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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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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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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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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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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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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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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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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