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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.

Thucydides

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
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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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
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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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule

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