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Thucydides : The rarest dangers are those in which failure brings little loss and success the greatest advantage. # Success # Failure # Danger

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Joseph Sugarman : " Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Francis Quarles : " Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Thomas H Huxley : " If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Chilo : " Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Winston Churchill : " Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Gustav Holst : " If nobody likes your work, you have to go on just for the sake of the work. And you're in no danger of letting the public make you repeat yourself. Every artist ought to pray that he may not be "a success". If he's a failure he stands a good chance of concentrating upon the best work of which he's capable. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Arthur Schopenhauer : " How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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George Santayana : " The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men’s minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Gilbert K Chesterton : " Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to found our social philosophy on any theory which is debatable but has not been debated. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Henry Ward Beecher : " The most dangerous people are the ignorant. " # Success # Failure # Danger

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Thucydides : " On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend." # Quotations # Truth # Exaggeration

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Thucydides : " I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time." # Applause # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Thucydides : " Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage." # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Power # Sacrifice

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Thucydides : " When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it." # Habit # Liberty # Blame

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Thucydides : " 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 hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school." # Friends and Friendship # Belief # Planning

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Thucydides : " The country on the sea coast, now called Macedonia, was first acquired by Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his ancestors, originally Temenids from Argos...The whole is now called Macedonia, and at the time of the invasion of Sitalces, Perdiccas, Alexander's son, was the reigning king." # Ancestry # Fathers # Names

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Thucydides : " There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty." # Happiness # Change # Service

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Thucydides : " If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals." # Obedience # Friends and Friendship # Courage

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Thucydides : " It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won." # Glory

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Thucydides : " I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth. On the one hand, the friend who is familiar with every fact of the story may think that some point has not been set forth with that fullness which he wishes and knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to the matter may be led by envy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his own nature. For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity." # Friends and Friendship # Action # Truth

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