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

Thucydides

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
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
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
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
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
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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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win

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