Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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