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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
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
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
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
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
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
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
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Himself Man Remember School Training
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
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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
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

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