You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
THUCYDIDESMen’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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Be 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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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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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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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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