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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
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
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
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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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Afraid Basis Equality Fear Party
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall

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