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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

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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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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
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
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
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Ambition Content Engagement Evil Lust Party Power Rise Violence
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 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
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
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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Himself Man Remember School Training
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
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
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness

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