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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

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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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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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Action Learning Safety Training True
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
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
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Attention Deserve Enjoyment Human Justice People Praise Situation
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
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
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power

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