It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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