The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
ThucydidesMen's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
ThucydidesI have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
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