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"The secret of freedom, courage."

Thucydides on freedom
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"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."

Thucydides on happiness
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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

Thucydides on ignorance
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"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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"Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. We do not copy our neighbours, but are an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while the law secures equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognised; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit. Neither is poverty a bar, but a man may benefit his country whatever be the obscurity of his condition. "

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"An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character, and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy. "

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"Mens 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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