Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
THUCYDIDESSelf-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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