Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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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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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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 Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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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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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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