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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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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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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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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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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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