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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
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
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
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
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

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