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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

Thucydides

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
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
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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
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
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
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
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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Attack Conquer Control Failure Man Position Worst
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
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
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

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

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