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.
THUCYDIDESThe secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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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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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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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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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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