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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Double Fame Hate Return
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
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Hurt Loss Money Pain Wealth
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Enemy Friendship Immortal Truth
Woe to the conquered.
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Conquer One Liner Win
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Inspirational Reward Success Work

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