Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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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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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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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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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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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