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The secret of freedom, courage.
Thucydides
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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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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We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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