The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
THUCYDIDESThe 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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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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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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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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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