Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
THUCYDIDESIgnorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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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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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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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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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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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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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.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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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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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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