It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
THUCYDIDESThey are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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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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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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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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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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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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