Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
THUCYDIDESThe secret of freedom, courage.
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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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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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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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