He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
THUCYDIDESWhen tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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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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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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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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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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