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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

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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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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
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
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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
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
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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