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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

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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
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
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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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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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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