Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
THUCYDIDESMost 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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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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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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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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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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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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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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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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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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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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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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