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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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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
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
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
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Brave Consequence Freedom Happiness Light Serious War
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
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
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

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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