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

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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
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
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
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit
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
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
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
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Beginning Cultivation Learning People
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

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