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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

Thucydides

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In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.
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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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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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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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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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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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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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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
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