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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.

Thucydides

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
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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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
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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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
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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Equality Exit Legal Man Superior Violence
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
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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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness

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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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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