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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.

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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
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
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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
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
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 cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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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

Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.

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