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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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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
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
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
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
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
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
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
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
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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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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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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