Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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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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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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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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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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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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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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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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