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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

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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
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
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
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
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
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Drive Easy Finding Kind Man Prosperity
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
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
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 whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit
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
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire

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