Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
Thucydides
The dead lay unburied, and each man as he recognized a friend among them shuddered with grief and horror; while the living whom they were leaving behind, wounded or sick, were to the living far more shocking than the dead, and more to be pitied than those who had perished.
man
And the rarest dangers are those in which failure brings little loss and success the greatest advantage.
failure danger success
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
content men rest
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
failure action
action
The secret to happiness is freedom.. And the secret to freedom is courage.
happiness
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
design men
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.
men
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.
haste mind
We must make up our minds to look for our protection not to legal terrors but to careful administration.
legal protection mind
Their swaying bodies reflected the agitation of their minds, and they suffered the worst agony of all, ever just within the reach of safety or just on the point of destruction.
mind
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
friendship worth
Right or community of blood was not the bond of union between them, so much as interest or compulsion as the case may be.
community rights
The freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.
chance
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