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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain
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
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Blame Body Intention Mindset Sin
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
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
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Scare Serious Trouble
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
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
No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Level Man Race
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Blind Clear Hurry Man
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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Enemy Fear Leadership Man View
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Bond Nature Relationship Unity

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