Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
THUCYDIDESThe secret of freedom, courage.
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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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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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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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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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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