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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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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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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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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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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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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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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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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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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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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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