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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Democracy Freedom People Prison Taste
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Better God Peace Safety Victory
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
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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Law Limitation Strong Weakness
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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Difficult Easy Fortune Greatness Leaving Moments
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Brave Fortune Help Inspirational Result
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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Better God Hands Hope Peace Power Safety Victory
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Difficult Intelligence Nature Ourselves Way
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

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