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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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In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
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And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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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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we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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