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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

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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Action Learning Safety Training True
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
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
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking

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.

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