Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
THUCYDIDESSpeculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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 should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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