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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
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
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Blessing Evil Gratitude Man Recognition
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
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
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
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
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Brave Fortune Help Inspirational Result
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
Temerity is not always successful.
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Chance Failure One Liner Success
This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Leaving War Weapon Word
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Abuse Quick
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Bond Dangerous Hate Man Strong
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
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Bond Nature Relationship Unity

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

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