Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
THUCYDIDESConcessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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 strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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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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