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

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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
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
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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
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
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
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
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
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
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
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
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 strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
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
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope

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