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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

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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
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Honor Peace Respect Return
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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Difficult Easy Fortune Greatness Leaving Moments
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
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
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Danger Fear Safety Security
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
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
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Bold Difficult Hope Safety
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

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