Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
THUCYDIDESIgnorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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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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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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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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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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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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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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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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