"History is Philosophy teaching by example."
-Thucydides
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"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.“
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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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