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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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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
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
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
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
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
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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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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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
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 strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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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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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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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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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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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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