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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

Thucydides

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
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
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
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
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
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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
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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Himself Man Remember School Training
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself

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