It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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.
More Thucydides Quotes
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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