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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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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
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
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
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
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence

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