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“Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.”

Thucydides · Respect

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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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

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