You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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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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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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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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