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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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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
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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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
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
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Afraid Basis Equality Fear Party
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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
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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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 peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness

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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