“He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.”
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
