History is Philosophy teaching by examples.Thucydides
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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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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
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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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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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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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