People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
THUCYDIDESThree of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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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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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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