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Wit is the flower of the imagination.

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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Double Fame Hate Return
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Freedom Listening Sweet
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Dignity Freedom Man Mindset
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Scare Serious Trouble
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
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
War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Hope Necessary War Weapon
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
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Blessing Evil Gratitude Man Recognition
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

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