"Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved."
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"You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely."
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"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."
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"They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities."
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"Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance."
― Thucydides
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"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."
― Thucydides
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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."
― Thucydides
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"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
― Thucydides
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"In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it."
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"Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on."
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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."
― Thucydides
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"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most."
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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."
― Thucydides
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"Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous."
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