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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

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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
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
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
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
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
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
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
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
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
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

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