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.
THUCYDIDESWhen 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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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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 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 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 men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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