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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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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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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
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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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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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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
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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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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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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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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The secret of freedom, courage.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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