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Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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
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
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
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
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
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
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
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
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
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

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