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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
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The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.
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It is no flattery to give a friend a due character for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
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Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.
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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
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It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
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The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
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It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
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I see the cure is not worth the pain.
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A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, surely, quoth he, thou art all voice and nothing else.
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Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. We are the only women who raise men, the Spartan lady replied.
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Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
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Agesilaus was very fond of his children and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.
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