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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Direction Feeling Loss Money Privacy
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Action Desire Eyes Glory History
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Action Desire Eyes Glory History
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Betray Care End Fake Trust
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Better Crime Resistance
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Bold Difficult Hope Safety
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Best History Mindset Sick Study
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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