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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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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
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
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
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
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place

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