He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
THUCYDIDESWe must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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 secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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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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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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 am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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