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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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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
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
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
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
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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 secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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Equality Exit Legal Man Superior Violence
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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
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
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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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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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope

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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