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Thucydides

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

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.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought

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

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

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.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them

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