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Knowledge without understanding is useless.

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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 useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
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 where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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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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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.

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