We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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