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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.

Thucydides

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
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
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
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
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
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
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
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall

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