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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

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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
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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
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
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
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
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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Award Best Courage Dangerous Difference Hard Time Prize Temptation
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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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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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering

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