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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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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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Attack Conquer Control Failure Man Position Worst
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
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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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
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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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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