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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Light Move Sea Wind
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Control Greatness Himself Intellectual Judgement Luck Moments
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Brave Fortune Help Inspirational Result
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Blessing Evil Gratitude Man Recognition
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Inspirational Reward Success Work
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
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
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
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
Prosperity engenders sloth.
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One Liner Prosperity
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Direction Feeling Loss Money Privacy
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
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
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
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man

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