"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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"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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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."
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"History is Philosophy teaching by example."
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"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."
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"If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people."
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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."
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