Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
THUCYDIDESI dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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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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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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