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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
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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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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
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
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
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

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