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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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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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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

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