History is Philosophy teaching by example.
THUCYDIDESContempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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 strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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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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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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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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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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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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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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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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