The 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.
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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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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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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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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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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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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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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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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