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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.

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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Light Move Sea Wind
Woe to the conquered.
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Conquer One Liner Win
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
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 moves more quickly than scandal.
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Abuse Quick
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Better Crime Resistance
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Leaving War Weapon Word
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Act Friendship Judgement Word
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart

Valor is the soldier’s adornment.

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