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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.

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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
The secret of freedom, courage.
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Courage Freedom One Liner Secret
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
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
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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Acceptance Strong Weakness
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
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall

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