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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
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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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
I 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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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
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

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

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