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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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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
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
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
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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
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
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
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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
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

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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