Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
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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That war is an evil is a proposition so familiar to everyone that it would be tedious to develop it.
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The Spartans meanwhile, man to man, and with their war songs in the ranks, exhorted each brave comrade to remember what he had learned before; well aware that the long training of action was of more use for saving lives than any brief verbal exhortation, though ever so well delivered.
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But what most oppressed them was that they had two wars at once, and has thus reached a pitch of frenzy which no one would have believed possible if he had heard of it before it had come to pass.
So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.
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But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an objective, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were established almost everywhere..
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When one is deprived of one's liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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They stood where they stood by the power of the sword.
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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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Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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In fine, 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 country on the sea coast, now called Macedonia, was first acquired by Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his ancestors, originally Temenids from Argos.. The whole is now called Macedonia, and at the time of the invasion of Sitalces, Perdiccas, Alexander's son, was the reigning king.
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History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
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