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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
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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
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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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
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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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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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
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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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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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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