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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

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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
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Danger Fear Safety Security
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Woe to the conquered.
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Conquer One Liner Win
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Better Crime Resistance
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Greatness One Liner Ourselves Terrorism
Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Guilty Men Mindset
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Beginning Greatness Growth Humble Transformation
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
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
Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Jewel One Liner Soldier War
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Bold Difficult Hope Safety
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War
No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Level Man Race

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