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.
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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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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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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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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 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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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