Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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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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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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 secret of freedom, courage.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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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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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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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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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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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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