Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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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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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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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