For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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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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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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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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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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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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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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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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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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 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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