Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
THUCYDIDESBut 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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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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