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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

Thucydides

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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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
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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Equality Exit Legal Man Superior Violence
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason

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