An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
THUCYDIDESWhen a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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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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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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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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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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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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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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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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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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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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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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