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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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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
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
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
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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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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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

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