Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
THUCYDIDESBe 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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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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