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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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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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
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
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
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
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
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
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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Attack Conquer Control Failure Man Position Worst
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

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