Stories happen to those who tell them.
THUCYDIDESThe secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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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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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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