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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

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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
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
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
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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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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
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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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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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

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