Roark walked now to these drawings; they were the first things to be packed.

All good deeds are rewarded. 
Between you and God knows.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.

The people made their recollections fit in with their sufferings

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

However well off a man may be in his private life, he will still be involved in the general ruin if his country is destroyed; whereas, so long as the state itself is secure, individuals have a much greater chance of recovering from their private misfortunes.

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.

It is useless to attack a man who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

Thucydides

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