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.
THUCYDIDESWe Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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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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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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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