The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
THUCYDIDESIn 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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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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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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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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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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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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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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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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