Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
THUCYDIDESThe secret of freedom, courage.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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