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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

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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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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty
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
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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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
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
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
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
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness

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