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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Bond Nature Relationship Unity
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
Woe to the conquered.
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Conquer One Liner Win
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Better God Peace Safety Victory
Temerity is not always successful.
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Chance Failure One Liner Success
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Discover God Independent Myself Pieces Power Reality Success Thinking Wait
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
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
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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Law Oneself Possible Satisfaction
War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Hope Necessary War Weapon
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Blessing Evil Gratitude Man Recognition
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Betray End Fake Trust
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
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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