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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
Thucydides
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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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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If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.
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In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
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It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.
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Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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War is an evil thing but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.
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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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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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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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