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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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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
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
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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Attack Conquer Control Failure Man Position Worst
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
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
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
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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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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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