The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
THUCYDIDESFor 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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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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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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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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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