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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
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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Award Best Courage Dangerous Difference Hard Time Prize Temptation
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power

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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