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Inspirational Quotes by Thucydides
- We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
- Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
- The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
- You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
- In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair…
- When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who…
- War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
- Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
- We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
- It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
- The secret of freedom, courage....
- He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
- Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
- The secret of happiness is freedom.
- Knowledge without understanding is useless.
- When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento