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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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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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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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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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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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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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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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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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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