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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
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
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
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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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War

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