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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

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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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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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
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
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
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
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth

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