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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

Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
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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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence
When 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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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
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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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
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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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
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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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
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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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Beginning Cultivation Learning People
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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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
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 bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest

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