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.
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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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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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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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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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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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 peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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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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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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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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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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