Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought
Thucydides
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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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.
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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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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
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful
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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.
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The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
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Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness
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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.
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The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine I have written my work not as an essay with which to win the applause of the moment but as a possession for all time.
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