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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

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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
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
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Afraid Basis Equality Fear Party
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
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 whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
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
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
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
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
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
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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

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