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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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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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It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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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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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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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 strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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