I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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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 are laws for peace as well as war.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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