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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
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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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
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
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
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
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
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
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
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
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

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

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