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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

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