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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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Blood Fear Murder Nature People
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 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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness 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
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
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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