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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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
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
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
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
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Attention Deserve Enjoyment Human Justice People Praise Situation
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature

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