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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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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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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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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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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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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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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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Stories happen to those who tell them.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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