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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
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
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
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
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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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
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
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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
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
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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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
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
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret

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