Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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 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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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