The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
THUCYDIDESWe 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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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