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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
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
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
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
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
LIVY

Forever Friendship Immortal Mortal
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
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Adversity Angry Desire Prosperity
From abundance springs safety.
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Material Safety Spring Wealth
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.
LIVY

Discover God Independent Myself Pieces Power Reality Success Thinking Wait
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Attack Protection Spirit
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

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