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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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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
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
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
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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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
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
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
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
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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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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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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