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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

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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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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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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 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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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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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

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