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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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The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
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
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 frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
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
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
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
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 am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit

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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