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Thucydides: 'Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.'

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Thucydides: 'It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.'

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Thucydides: 'Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.'

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Thucydides: 'We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.'

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Thucydides: 'Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.'

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Thucydides: 'We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.'

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Thucydides: 'Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.'

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Thucydides: 'Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.'

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Thucydides: 'We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.'

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Thucydides: 'The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.'

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Thucydides: 'History is Philosophy teaching by example.'

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Thucydides: 'The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.'

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Thucydides: 'The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.'

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Archimedes: 'Eureka! - I have found it!'

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Archimedes: 'The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.'

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Archimedes: 'Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.'

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Heraclitus: 'Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.'

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Heraclitus: 'You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.'

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Heraclitus: 'To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.'

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Heraclitus: 'Change alone is unchanging.'

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