And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
THUCYDIDESI dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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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.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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