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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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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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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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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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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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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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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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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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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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