History is Philosophy teaching by example.
THUCYDIDESHuman nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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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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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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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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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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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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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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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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