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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.

Thucydides

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
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
Men’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.
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Equality Exit Legal Man Superior Violence
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
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
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
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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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
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.
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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win

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