Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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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 am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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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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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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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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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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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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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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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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