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

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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One Liner Perseverance Virtue
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
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
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
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Excellence Maturity Time
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
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time 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
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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Better God Hands Hope Peace Power Safety Victory
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War

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

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