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.
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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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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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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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