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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Adversity Angry Desire Prosperity
Prosperity engenders sloth.
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One Liner Prosperity
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
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
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Freedom Listening Sweet
Temerity is not always successful.
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Chance Failure One Liner Success
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War
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
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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Greatness Man Promise Reward
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset 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
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Control Greatness Himself Intellectual Judgement Luck Moments
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

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