It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
THUCYDIDESSpeculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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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 will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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