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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

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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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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Beginning Cultivation Learning People
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
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
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
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
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
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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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
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

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