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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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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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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Attack Conquer Control Failure Man Position Worst
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Afraid Basis Equality Fear Party
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
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
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Fact Finding Hear People Story Trouble Truth

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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