Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
THUCYDIDESIt 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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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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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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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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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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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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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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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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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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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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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