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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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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
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War
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
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
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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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Afraid Basis Equality Fear Party
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War

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