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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Beginning Cultivation Learning People
Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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Equality Exit Legal Man Superior Violence
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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
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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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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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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