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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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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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
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
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
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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
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
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
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
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
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
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward

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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