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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.

Thucydides

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
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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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
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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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right
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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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Himself Man Remember School Training
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
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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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature

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