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.
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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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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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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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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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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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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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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