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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Attention Deserve Enjoyment Human Justice People Praise Situation
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
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
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
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit
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
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
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
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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
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
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right

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