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

Thucydides

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For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.
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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 generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.
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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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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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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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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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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
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If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.
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