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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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Ability Domination Freedom Humble Nature People
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
Prosperity engenders sloth.
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One Liner Prosperity
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
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Abuse Quick
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
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
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time Safety
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Betray Care End Fake Trust
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
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Inspirational Last Necessary Strong Weapon
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Democracy Freedom People Prison Taste
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Danger Fear Safety Security
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection

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