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

Thucydides

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
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
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
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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
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
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
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
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
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
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
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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

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

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