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For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
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
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
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Believe Goodness Man Public
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
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
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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Behavior Best Equality Success Superior Treat
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
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
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
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
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Fact Finding Hear People Story Trouble Truth
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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Alarm Growth Power War

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

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