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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence
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
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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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
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
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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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
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Fact Finding Hear People Story Trouble Truth
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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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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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Impression Man Manifestation Power
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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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

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