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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
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
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
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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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
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
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
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
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
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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

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