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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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 men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
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
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict

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