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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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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
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
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Fact Finding Hear People Story Trouble Truth
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence
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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
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
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War

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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