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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.
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Action Goodness Opportunity Wealth
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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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
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
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
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
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
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
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
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
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
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
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
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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And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

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