The secret of freedom, courage.
THUCYDIDESIgnorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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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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It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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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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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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 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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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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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