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
THUCYDIDESWhen 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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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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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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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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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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