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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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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
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
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
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
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
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
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
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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
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
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall

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