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• I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
• 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…
• We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
• For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
• The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
• The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its…
• We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
• Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
• An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
• Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
• The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

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