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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
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
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
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
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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Award Best Courage Dangerous Difference Hard Time Prize Temptation
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
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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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
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
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
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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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

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