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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Thucydides

Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
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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Design Hope Man Misery Success
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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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
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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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
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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Himself Man Remember School Training
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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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
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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Angry Hurt Injury Justice

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