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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Thucydides

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
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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Fact Finding Hear People Story Trouble Truth
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
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
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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Award Best Courage Dangerous Difference Hard Time Prize Temptation
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win
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
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason
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
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Afraid Basis Equality Fear Party
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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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

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