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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
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
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
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
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
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
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
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
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

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