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

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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Himself Man Remember School Training
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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
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
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
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
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
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
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
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

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