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Knowledge without understanding is useless.

Thucydides

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
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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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Award Best Courage Dangerous Difference Hard Time Prize Temptation
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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
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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
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
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
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
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret

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