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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
Thucydides
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speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.
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As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
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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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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other
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In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
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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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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.
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