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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
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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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
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
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
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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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
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
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation

Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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