We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
THUCYDIDESOf 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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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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 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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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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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