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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Himself Man Remember School Training
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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