The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
THUCYDIDESHe who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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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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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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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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