We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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