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Thinking Quotes by Thucydides
- The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by…
- In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our…
- Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of…
- Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself,…
- I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness…
- People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking
- Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a…
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