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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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
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
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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
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
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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