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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
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Award Best Courage Dangerous Difference Hard Time Prize Temptation
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
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
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
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Fear Growth Reason War
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Afraid Basis Equality Fear Party
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself

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