When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
THUCYDIDESThe peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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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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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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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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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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