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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

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Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even…
The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its…
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the…
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate…
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

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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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