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

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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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Award Best Courage Dangerous Difference Hard Time Prize Temptation
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
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
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
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
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

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

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