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Action Quotes by Thucydides
- In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would…
- For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going…
- Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius