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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

Thucydides

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Himself Man Remember School Training
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
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
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
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
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
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
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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
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
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense

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