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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

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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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Experience Reason Success Time
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit
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
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
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
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Beginning Cultivation Learning People

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