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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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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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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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