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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
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
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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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
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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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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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