We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
THUCYDIDESThe bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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 strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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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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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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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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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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