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.
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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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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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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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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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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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