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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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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.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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