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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

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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
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
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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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
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
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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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
Stories happen to those who tell 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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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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Equality Exit Legal Man Superior Violence
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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