I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
THUCYDIDESAmassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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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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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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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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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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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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