"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."
-Thucydides
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"History is Philosophy teaching by example."
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"Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them."
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"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."
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"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
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