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Prosperity engenders sloth.

Livy

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Discover God Independent Myself Pieces Power Reality Success Thinking Wait
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
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
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
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
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Honor Peace Respect Return
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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Enemy Fear Leadership Man View
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Level Man Race
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember

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