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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
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
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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
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
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
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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
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
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security

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