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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.

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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
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
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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
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
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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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

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