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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

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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
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Excellence Family Himself
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
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
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
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Act Friendship Judgement Word
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Dignity Freedom Man Mindset
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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Advice Care Listening Man Myself Oneself Problem Thinking
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Business Eyes People Prosperity
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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Law Oneself Possible Satisfaction
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Blind Clear Hurry Man
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Event Greatness Spring
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Betray End Fake Trust

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

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