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

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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 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
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
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
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
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
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 secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
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
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right

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