We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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