The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
THUCYDIDESI dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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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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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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