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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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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
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
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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