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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Thucydides

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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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Action Learning Safety Training True
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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Fact Finding Hear People Story Trouble Truth
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
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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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win
knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
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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Equality Exit Legal Man Superior Violence
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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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching

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