It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
THUCYDIDESThey 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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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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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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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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