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

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So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
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Acceptance Hands Man Search Trouble Truth
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
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
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
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
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
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching

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