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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War
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
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
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
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
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
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
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
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place

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