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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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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
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
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Attention Deserve Enjoyment Human Justice People Praise Situation
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
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
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
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
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Himself Man Remember School Training
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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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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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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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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