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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 will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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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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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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