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.
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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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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