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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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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
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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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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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
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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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
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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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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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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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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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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