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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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