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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

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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 sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
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
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
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
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
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
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment

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