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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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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
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
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
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
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity

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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