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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

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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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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
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
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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It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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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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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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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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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

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