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Thucydides

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Attention Deserve Enjoyment Human Justice People Praise Situation
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Beginning Cultivation Learning People
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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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
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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Believe Goodness Man Public
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite

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