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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Difficult Intelligence Nature Ourselves Way
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Brave Fortune Help Inspirational Result
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
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
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
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
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Jewel One Liner Soldier War
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
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Business Eyes People Prosperity
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Blame Body Intention Mindset Sin
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

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