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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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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
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
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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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
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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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
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
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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