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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
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
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

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